{"id":320,"date":"2019-12-17T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/?p=320"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:46:14","slug":"institutional-change-towards-innovative-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/institutional-change-towards-innovative-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Change towards Innovative Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321\" style=\"width: 1999px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/12\/edtech.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1336\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/12\/edtech.jpg 1999w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/12\/edtech-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/12\/edtech-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/156\/2019\/12\/edtech-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1999px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1999\/1336;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of mindwire: https:\/\/images.app.goo.gl\/b7GP9iZaivSS2xG67<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dron (2014) argued that there have been \u201crapid and radical changes in teaching and learning technologies\u201d (p.259) over the past ten years and that this wave of innovation will continue to drive changes in education. The author noted that there are many barriers to institutions embracing and utilizing new technologies for learning, and this resonated with me as many obstacles in the ability to select, manage, and interconnect innovative technologies are too often barriers to innovative changes in my organization. Although these abrupt technology changes are occurring, too often, educational institutions are just trying to keep up and are scrambling to re-invent curriculum, activities, and assessment opportunities to provide learners a modernized experience. Annand (2007) postulated that the particular problems of higher education, providing innovative experiences, would not disappear anytime soon and that many academic programs are continuing to operate in conventional, inflexible ways.\u00a0 In my experience, faculty are all over the spectrum of embracing technology, and not all are incorporating it with pedagogy in mind.\u00a0 Faculty that are wanting to embrace innovation are often frustrated by the slow crawl our institution is on in supporting authentic, innovative opportunities and spaces. What are the barriers to your institution? Would you consider it to be moving forward, standing still, or going backward?<\/p>\n<p>Annand, D. (2007). Re-organizing universities for the information age. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 8(3)<\/p>\n<p>Dron, J. (2014). Chapter 9: Innovation and Change: Changing how we Change. In Zawacki-Richter, O. &amp; Anderson, T. (Eds.),\u00a0<em>Online distance education: Towards a research agenda.<\/em>\u00a0Athabasca, AB: AU Press. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781927356623.01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dron (2014) argued that there have been \u201crapid and radical changes in teaching and learning technologies\u201d (p.259) over the past ten years and that this wave of innovation will continue to drive changes in education. The author noted that there are many barriers to institutions embracing and utilizing new technologies for learning, and this resonated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/institutional-change-towards-innovative-practices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Institutional Change towards Innovative Practices<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0126\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}