1. What has changed about your thoughts on Innovation (what you used to think Innovation was, and what do you think about Innovation now)?
Based on Wikipedia, Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in introducing new goods or services or improving in offering goods or services. As time changes, we need to shift our perspective on Innovation and how it has come to bring changes. Creative collaboration through a particular view is called borrowing ideas. This type of Innovation is a category entirely created by users because they could see the need and the opportunity, but somehow they didn’t have the incentive to innovate. The existence of the internet combines passionate and knowledgeable users with those who got the motivation to innovate where they’ve got the tools they want to; this is called creative collaboration.
The ideas are from the users, who are often ahead of the producers. When you’ve got ideas that affect many technologies or people with great uncertainty, the payoffs to Innovation are most significant where the tension is highest. And in radical Innovation, it often needs to be more precise how it can be applied. The more radical the creation, the more the uncertainty, and the more we need Innovation to determine what technology is. The approach to patents and inventions is based on the idea that the inventor knows the design. Similarly, it is like a moment of creation. Most creativity is cumulative and collaborative; like Wikipedia, it develops over a long period.
Users are increasingly important because they are the source of significant disruptive innovations. Emerging new markets are the breeding grounds for passionate users. They work at their leisure very seriously. They acquire skills, invest time, and use technology that’s getting cheaper. It’s not just the internet, cameras, design, and technology, mainly through globalisation. A lot of this equipment is more affordable, more knowledgeable users more educated; more can connect and are more able to do things together. Consumption, in that sense, is an expression of their productive potential.
2. What has the COVID-19 pandemic taught you from the perspective of Innovation in education?
As educators, we need to cater for the needs of our students. Students are the ones who know best what best methods to help them understand a topic. Problem-based learning is one of the recommended methods of teaching and learning classes where students collaborate. At the same time, the teacher is the facilitator that guides the students to learn through a problem-solving technique. If educators thoroughly understand the need of the students, more innovative solutions can come from the teachers to impact the students.
After the pandemic, many students needed help grasping the time lost to gain essential and basic knowledge in many subjects. Talking to students helps ensure that an innovation designed by the teacher can thoroughly help the students through the lost times during the pandemic.
3. How has the education situation been in your home country during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what can be improved regarding your response (innovations) to teaching and learning in the pandemic era?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many students struggled to be online due to poor connections or insufficient devices. These students who could not attend lessons during the lockdown are the lost ones in terms of knowledge gain. Now since all the students are back in school, the school needs to make up for these students. One of the best inventions is the development of an online application, either through a website or a mobile app which can be accessed quickly and accessible for these students to learn at their own pace or hybrid.