Thursday, May 14, 2009

Managing adoption of e-learning

A systemic framework for managing e-learning adoption in campus universities: individual strategies in context

PHD by Carol Russell under the supervision of Gilly Salmon - Very high level stuff !!!

Word cloud by wordle - (cheers for sharing this tool with me Connie P.)

Wordle: Bringing about Change


Chapters of interest:

Page 2 - Context
Method: Action research developing cross discipline innovative teaching & edu technologies (ITET) fellowship program over 5 years.
Page 5 - Complexity and diversity: discussion on individual staff development, communities of practice, knowledge creation process, individual differences - as a rationale to "combine individual perspectives on adoption of new technologies in order to identify systematic patterns across university's learning & teaching activities as a whole"
Page 9 - Motivation, confidence & constraints
"evidence that building shared educational knowledge that is explicit (codified)

and externally acknowledged, within a cross-discipline community empowers the

individual teachers to make changes to learning and teaching systems and curricula in

association with their use of e-learning technology"

Page 13 - Discussion & Conclusion
"staff development for individuals, on its own, is not enough to bring about change"
National strategies + institutional strategies + individual strategies




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