This document discusses making a case to senior management for funding to explore innovative technologies. It provides guidance on identifying implications, risks, and risk management strategies for new technologies. It also presents an action brief statement template to convince management of a technology's potential benefits. The document concludes with an exercise where attendees in groups prepare a short presentation making a case for funding to investigate one technology.
Slides for a paper on "Reflecting on Yesterday, Understanding Today, Planning for Tomorrow" presented by Brian Kelly at the Umbrella 2013 conference in Manchester on 2 July 2013. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/umbrella-2013/
Presenter: Teresa MacKinnon Organisation: University of Warwick Description: The Language Centre at the University of Warwick has been enhancing the language learning experiences of students through opportunities to connect directly with peers in other countries. The Clavier project began in 2011 using the Languages@Warwick platform as a shared point of contact. The portal course, known as EWC, incorporates Blackboard Collaborate tools for live and asynchronous contact and has provided a scalable model for other language courses which are now growing in Spanish and German classes at Warwick.
Luis Fuentes participated in the online course "Idea Generation Methods" from January to March 2015, taught by professors from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The course explained techniques for generating ideas in a goal-oriented process and was a collaboration between KIT and KIC InnoEnergy, the European company for sustainable energy innovation, business creation, and education.