Do you feel overwhelmed by the challenges that Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) poses to education? Do you have an idea of what needs to change in your institution but are not sure how to make this change happen? Do you want to discover how a tried and tested change management model can help steer your institution in the right direction? If so, this Action Lab proposed by the EDEN Digital Education Leadership Academy (DELA) is for you!

During the Action Lab, you will have the opportunity to engage in a problem-solving workshop, addressing a real-life challenge through the lens of change management, applying Appreciative Inquiry (Cooperrider & Whitney, 2005; Orr & Cleveland-Innes, 2015), which focuses on surfacing the positive and in collectively defining the desired change through Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny (Stavros et al., 2015).

This DELA Action Lab will equip you with insights to support you in bringing about profound institutional change in your own institution, whatever the role you hold.

Key Takeaways:

• Insights into how to apply the Appreciative Inquiry 5-D model to a concrete challenge around GenAI in higher education;

• Awareness of how people in different leadership roles, both formal and informal, can bring about the desired change and ensure it sticks;

• Ideas for further reflection.

Participant Interactivity:

After an initial framing by the Action Lab moderators, participants will engage in collaborative problem-solving in small groups, focusing on a case example inspired by a real-life situation, and using the Appreciative Inquiry 5-D model as a guide. A rapporteur from each subgroup will share the solutions identified, for discussion within the wider group. To wrap up the Action Lab, the moderators will summarise the key takeaways and propose ideas for further reflection.