Delphi Technique in Simulating Innovative Learning Practices: Moderating role of IT Artefacts

Abstract

Covid-19 turned many organisations’ long-term wish lists into essential needs overnight. Therefore, innovative learning factors became an integral part of digital transformation that includes learning, learning to learn, which helps students develop a growth mindset belief system about their abilities. Therefore, the successful application of innovative learning practices depends on the students’ readiness towards learning in a new norm. The Delphi technique is a widely used and accepted method for gathering data from respondents within their domain of expertise. The Delphi technique is well suited as a method for consensus-building by using a series of questionnaires delivered using multiple iterations to collect data from a panel of selected subjects. The aim is to collect expert-based judgments and often to use them to identify consensus. The application of Delphi techniques in digital transformation is to discuss the processes of the results. It is anticipated that this model can help institutions of higher education to identify and understand the technology aspects in terms of the right mix of artefacts   when assessing the readiness in an e-learning platform. The findings of this research are summarized using systematic reviews of Delphi techniques and examined from a methodological perspective. Five systematic reviews show that Delphi studies are usually accomplished in two to three sets, monitored by the chosen panel of experts. Hence, several revisions to the Delphi technique have now been established. Based on the results, it is obvious that further research is needed to shed light on the methodological approaches and modifications of Delphi techniques. Apart from that, it is also necessary to explain what specific criteria are used to evaluate the quality of their implementation and reporting. The aim of this paper is to review the innovative approach among learners by performing the Delphi technique, and develop an initial conceptual model for design thinking and the technological impact  towards innovative learning practices in higher education institutions in .This model is believed to be a future reference for institutions of higher learning education to help understand and appreciate the design thinking approach and the technological impact in terms of artefacts aspects when assessing the innovative learning practices .