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The Lean Classroom

The Lean Classroom

Sean Yo

July 17, 2014
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  1. SEAN YO Technical Product Manager ­ Education @ D2L MA

    Digital Media Studies ­ Politics of Online Authorship ­ Cultural Encoding of Online Identity Chief Architect at InGamer ­ Real Time Social Live Sports Game Start Up in Waterloo Hive Waterloo Founder ­ Working with the Mozilla Foundation to help youth technology organizations start, grow and succeed
  2. PROF. DAN GILLIS Assistant Professor And Statistician ­ School of

    Computer Science, University of Guelph PhD Statistics Undergraduate Teaching ­ Real World Problem-Based Instruction ­ Community Engaged Scholarship Current Research ­ Statistical modelling of populations for ecological risk assessment ­ Testing sampling design for population estimates
  3. WHAT IS THE LEAN CLASSROOM? • The Lean Classroom •

    Applies lean principles to pedagogy • It is an idea • It is an experiment • It is an invitation • It is a website
  4. THE LEAN STARTUP IS A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT

    THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE NEW PRODUCTS THAT EMPHASIZES FAST ITERATION, CUSTOMER INSIGHT, A HUGE VISION & GREAT AMBITION… ALL AT THE SAME TIME
  5. THE LEAN STARTUP IS •The “What is” of Lean Startup

    •Entrepreneurs are Everywhere •Entrepreneurship is Management •Validated Learning •Build-Measure-Learn • Minimum Viable Product •Innovation Accounting
  6. THE LEAN STARTUP ISN’T • Centralized Command & Control •

    Waterfall/Big Bang • Compliance over Collaboration • Systems and Process over People • Orthodoxy and Dogma
  7. RUNNING LEAN IS • The “How To” of Lean Startup

    • How to build & measure what customers want • How to find early customers • How to test pricing • How to decide what goes into Release 1.0 • How to maximize for speed, learning, & focus • How to iterate for product/market fit
  8. RUNNING LEAN ISN'T • Unproven • An academic book of

    theory • About agreeing with all things Lean • Based on a best guess • Selling you anything
  9. LEAN STARTUP SOLVES THE PROBLEM OF ACHIEVING FAILURE: BUILDING A

    BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT PRODUCT THAT NO ONE WANTS
  10. ANY INNOVATIVE COMPANY STRUGGLES WITH HOW MUCH TO LISTEN TO

    CUSTOMERS. MOST REALIZE THAT YOU CANNOT TRUST THEM TO TELL YOU WHAT YOUR NEXT NEW PRODUCT WILL BE
  11. WE'RE JUST SITTING HERE TRYING TO PUT OUR PC JRS

    IN A PILE AND BURN THEM. AND THE DAMNED THINGS DON'T BURN. THAT'S THE ONLY THING IBM DID RIGHT WITH THE MACHINE—THEY MADE IT FLAME-PROOF.
  12. ASK INSTEAD: WHAT IS? • Difficult Or Frustrating? • The

    Hardest Part Of Getting To Done? • The Kind Of Problems Are You Trying To Solve?
  13. THE LEAN STARTUP ISN’T JUST ABOUT HOW TO CREATE A

    MORE SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS, IT’S ABOUT WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THOSE BUSINESSES TO IMPROVE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING WE DO. I IMAGINE LEAN STARTUP PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, TO HEALTHCARE, AND TO SOLVING THE WORLD’S GREAT PROBLEMS. IT’S ULTIMATELY AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: HOW CAN WE LEARN MORE QUICKLY WHAT WORKS AND DISCARD WHAT DOESN’T?
  14. THE LEAN CLASSROOM IS •Lean Startup For Teaching & Learning

    • Continuous Improvement • Pedagogical quality owned by instructors & students • Build-Measure-Learn for the Classroom • A system that will scale
  15. THE LEAN CLASSROOM ISN’T • Turning the classroom into a

    service business • The idea that the “Student Is Always Right” • Measuring students by revenue generated • Thinking of schools as factories or stores
  16. LEARNING TO SEE WASTE AND SYSTEMATICALLY ELIMINATE IT HAS ALLOWED

    LEAN COMPANIES SUCH AS TOYOTA TO DOMINATE ENTIRE INDUSTRIES. LEAN THINKING DEFINES VALUE AS 'PROVIDING BENEFIT TO THE CUSTOMER‘ ANYTHING ELSE IS WASTE.
  17. IT’S NOT THE STUDENT’S JOB TO KNOW WHAT THEY NEED

    TO KNOW. IT IS THEIR JOB TO LEARN. AFTER ALL, IT IS NOT KNOWING THAT MAKES THEM A STUDENT.
  18. LEAN COFFEE IS A STRUCTURED, BUT AGENDA-LESS MEETING. PARTICIPANTS GATHER,

    BUILD AN AGENDA, AND BEGIN TALKING. CONVERSATIONS ARE DIRECTED AND PRODUCTIVE BECAUSE THE AGENDA FOR THE MEETING WAS DEMOCRATICALLY GENERATED.
  19. IN TIMES OF CHANGE, LEARNERS INHERIT THE EARTH, WHILE THE

    LEARNED FIND THEMSELVES BEAUTIFULLY EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH A WORLD THAT NO LONGER EXISTS.
  20. CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION @seanyo Technical Product Manager Education Team @

    D2L LeanClassroom.Org @DrDanielGillis Assistant Professor & Statistician University of Guelph