Are we being innovative enough as an organization? How can we support a more disruptive organizational culture? These are two questions that I have recently heard being asked by senior leaders in my provincial health authority. So what are they really asking and what is their vision for future directions? What I think they are asking: How do we use technology to the maximum of our capability to increase healthcare efficiency and...
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We started our Leading Change in Digital Learning course in the RRU MALAT program and our first section of readings was very interesting. Leadership is such an engaging topic because we all come to the discussion with a wide variety of experiences and from various contexts. I was hoping that through the readings I could connect to the qualities that I wanted and needed to develop in myself, to increase my ability to lead in my...
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LRNT 524 has engaged us in readings that reflect on the meaning of innovation. Innovation is a word without a clear definition. Skillicorn’s (2016) blog post demonstrates the diversity in opinion around the meaning of innovation and guides our reflections on what innovation means to each of us. Some definitions of innovation that I connected with in Skillicorn’s (2016) article: Gijs van Wulfen: “An innovation is a...
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For our current course, LRNT 524, our team was tasked with completing Stanford’s d.school design thinking challenge (Stanford University Institute of Design, 2016). The d.school’s stages of Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test were all used in our process. Our team triad (Amanda, Christy, and Lorne) all work in very diverse contexts, yet the design process exposed a common need for our learners to build relationships and...
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It’s our first week in LRNT524 – Innovation, Design, and Learning Environments in the RRU MALAT Program. Our first task is to review some readings on the ADDIE design model in the context of designing learning. Bates (2014) describes ADDIE thoroughly, breaking down the steps of Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate. ADDIE seems thorough, and aside from being noted by Bates (2014) as perhaps lacking an initial...
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