1. Learning Technologies Incubator
Project Lead: Michael Flower
Primary Collaborators: Thom Hines, FPA; Anne McClanan,
FPA; Dennis Gilbert, OIT; Douglas McCartney, OIT; M.K.
Moskal, OIT; Steve Gance, COL; Robert Liebman, Sociology
Many others have expressed interest

2. Learning Technologies Incubator

3. Learning Technologies Incubator

4. Learning Technologies Incubator

5. Learning Technologies Incubator

6. Learning Technologies Incubator

7. The LTI Team
Faculty
Educational technologists
Interaction designers
Librarians
Assessment specialists
Community partners
Student researchers

8. The Work of the LTI Team
• Identify, sample, develop and pilot new and
existing technologies
• Identify technologies and effective practices that
can promoted, scaled up and sustained
• Attend to discipline-specific as well as general
technologies

9. The Work of the LTI Team
• Provide on-going showcase of pilot work in
progress via a richly functional website and
repository
• Aim for seamless relationships between
technologies where possible
• Consider matters of assessment in both the
piloting of design and the implementation of
technologies

10. A quick
example
A sophisticated, group-oriented
commenting system developed in 2012

11. A quick
example
•Discovered Branch in late summer
•Requested participation in public beta
•Accepted into beta test in late October
•Prototyped Branch in sample course website

14. A quick
example
•Branch exited beta on January 14
•Branch into course website on January 21
•Time to initial implementation: 10 weeks
•Next-use implementation time: 1 week
•Time for wider adoption without Incubator?
Many months—if at all

15. Learning Technologies Incubator
Anticipated outcomes
• Knowledge base of technologies and effective technology practices
• Suite of design criteria to guide subsequent pilot efforts
• Criteria ensuring vetted technologies are supported and maintained
• Criteria for evaluating incubator projects to weigh costs and benefits of sustaining
similar efforts after piloting
• Ongoing communication and showcasing of LTI work via demonstration websites,
downloadable examples, and regular brown bags and hands-on sessions

16. Learning Technologies Incubator
IN SUM: The LTI functions to underpin
the growing implementation of new
technologies, keeping PSU close to the
leading edge

17. Learning Technologies Incubator
IN SUM: The LTI functions to underpin
the growing implementation of new
technologies, keeping PSU close to the
leading edge

18. Learning Technologies Incubator
IN SUM: The LTI functions to underpin
the growing implementation of new
technologies, keeping PSU close to the
leading edge