Author Tala

    As part of LRNT526, Inquiry into Contemporary Issues in Learning Technology, our team decided to investigate the application of simulations as educational technology in educational contexts. After participating in a Virtual Healthcare experience  (De.ryerson, n.d.) and attending five different modules; Mental Health,… Continue Reading →

  My perspective on how leaders approach leadership within my own context has remained the same. I still believe a combination of reflective and adaptive leadership would be the best option for my own context and especially for the current… Continue Reading →

  Learning technologies are ever-changing.  Organizations must continually invest labour and finances to take advantage of technologies’ affordances to meet the needs of their students or clients.  Unfortunately, many projects created to implement these changes do not succeed. Deliverables are… Continue Reading →

Introduction Implementing a new Learning Management System (LMS) in the international hospitality group I worked for involved two change implementation scopes; Corporate level and hotel level. Although the two scopes have interrelated objectives. However, each scope has a different plan,… Continue Reading →

Executive Summary Introducing change in Digital Learning Environments (DLEs) depends highly on the capabilities of Leaders. In order to capture the experience of leaders in the hospitality industry, I interviewed two former colleagues who worked with me in InterContinental Hotel… Continue Reading →

The history of change management entails that change is not easy, and applying it in a corporation setting needs robust leadership approaches. Al-Haddad and Kotnour (2015) provide a research synthesis for the history of change management; they point out that… Continue Reading →

Leadership is a vital component in the culture of the hotel industry. I have been working in the hotel industry for 10 years, all the international companies I worked with valued leadership. In the learning and development department, the set… Continue Reading →

  In empathic design and co-design, stakeholders play a crucial role in the design process. Mattelmäki, Vaajakallio, & Koskinen (2014) asserted that at first, cultural probes inspired empathic design. Through an interpretive exercise, empathic designers immerse themselves in understanding the… Continue Reading →

Gartner’s hype cycle (2016) provides a view of how a technology or application will evolve to help organizations “Separate hype from the real drivers of a technology’s commercial promise, reduce the risk of your technology investment decisions, Compare your understanding… Continue Reading →

Innovation & Business Strategy In 524 – Innovation, Design and Learning Environments, we shed the light on innovation. As I think of the question: “What is innovation?”, one of the definitions, shared by our instructor in a collaborate session for our… Continue Reading →