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Boyd, Lesley (2023). ULTIMATE: conceptual framework of a technology-enabled collaborative problem solving and improvement process. Open Issue 1.0 September 2023. Lesley Boyd.
Abstract
The ULTIMATE framework (Using Learning Technology in Making Action-based Transformative Enhancements) has recently been conceptualised in original research (Boyd, 2022). ULTIMATE is a non-traditional approach aimed at practitioners and stakeholders who don’t necessarily know each other, have a routine working relationship, or strongly identify in a cohesive community of practice. It uses a dynamic 'learning network' approach in which disparate and possibly geographically separated participants can grapple together with a problem area requiring improvement. Together they follow a collaborative, equitable and emergent action research process, connected and enabled by a learning technology infrastructure.
The methodology used is technology-enabled collaborative action research underpinned by grounded theory method (GTM). GTM was used to conceptualise the unfolding action research process, after comparing and critiquing three other frameworks concerning collaborative action in the literature (Boyd, 2022, pp.51-81). This OER takes the first steps towards a proposed series of OERs and an innovation of ‘Open Theory Building’, which makes ULTIMATE openly available for re-use, extension and adaption.