Manchester Workshop, July 2009

From iCoper

Work Packages 4 & 8 of the iCoper Project hosted a workshop on 2nd July 2009 in the Open University Regional Centre, Manchester, UK. A second, follow-up, workshop date and venue is planned at a later date.

The purpose of the first workshop was to:

help us explore, collectively, the initial findings of the many surveys that have been carried out in our iCoper community

plan for collecting the high level scenarios from experts outside the ICOPER.

Force field mapping techniques & weak signal analysis was used to assess the information, and a discussion emerged concerning the findings that will help us in reviewing our best practices and also in testing the use cases planned in terms of scope and effectiveness of capturing key drivers in the area.

Weak Signals Report

An outline of the day can be found in The Programme.

Some overviews of weak signal analysis:

A summary by Coffman

A paper "Some notes on the strategic strength of weak signal analysis" by Mendoca, Cardos & Caraca file to follow...

[edit] 1 Finding the Venue

The Open University Regional Offices are located at:

351 Altrincham Road Sharston,

Manchester M22 4UN

Telephone: +44 (0)161 998 7272

Fax: +44 (0)161 945 3356

A map can be found at: http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps.aspx?contactid=8

[edit] 2 The Programme

Outline:

discussion on the results of the ICOPER surveys produced by the different WPs

The surveys carried out so far from the ICOPER WPs were considered and signals of recent changes, trends, observations that have relevance to competence-based learning but at this stage is not possible to estimate how they will evolve. (could mean nothing noise, or could turn to mega trends) were identified. A first list of such signals in a form of very short paragraphs for further analysis were captured.

A first step was to collect ideas from each Work Package in the form of a force field map.

identification of drivers, trends and observations on recent changes, for further investigation

In parallel, brainstorming for soliciting a number of normative-intuitive scenarios from external groups e.g. to brainstorm on the possible collaborators that could submit good scenarios for our Roadmap.

A second stage was to re-examine the force field maps and create a short paragraph or sentence representing the emerging weak signals.

What was brought to the workshop?

The results from the reports on the assessment and evaluation that were collected so far. Emerging topics that you would like to discuss with the rest of the partners were reflected upon.

Preliminary schedule can be seen at: The Programme

Useful documents

Scenario 1

Input for workshop