Loosen Your Grip: Application Innovation through Research Partnership

Supporting innovation requires the openness and flexibility to move beyond current systems, practices and concepts. As partners to research, developers, like researchers, discover significant results by embracing the creative process. This presentation demonstrates how a CFI project overlapped with administrative and instructional needs at OISE to produce a recombinant online environment orchestrating many tools, something greater than the sum of its parts. Our story is the cycle of decisions taken, constraints encountered, technical choices made, and lessons learned. Let’s discuss implications for the future of application groups across campus. Can we continue to make room for innovation?