{"id":271,"date":"2020-09-20T15:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T22:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/?p=271"},"modified":"2020-09-27T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:26:07","slug":"leaders-in-education-and-technology-cheryl-ward-ed-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/leaders-in-education-and-technology-cheryl-ward-ed-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders in Education and Technology: Cheryl Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Image courtesy of the Patient Safety Council of British Columbia<\/span><\/p>\n

Special Acknowledgement: As a Metis student of education research, I would like to acknowledge my fellow indigenous peoples. Also, to the right of Cheryl Ward, imaged above, is my father-in-law Dr. Doug Cochrane, former chair of the B.C. Patient Safety and Quality Council.<\/p>\n

Cheryl Ward, an Executive Director at the Provincial Health Services Authority of B.C., is an advocate for social justice, equity, and indigenous patient safety within the B.C. health care system. She is primarily concerned with improving care for indigenous people, informing cultural safety in provincial and regional health authorities, and addressing stereotyping and discrimination in the B.C. health care system. Holding a doctorate in education from Simon Fraser University, Ward\u2019s research on anti-racist pedagogy (e.g. Ward\u2019s Ed.D thesis (Ward, 2018)<\/a>) has contributed to the conceptualization and development of a program called San’yas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

San\u2019yas is an online program that educates health care professionals on equity, cultural safety, and high-quality health care practices for indigenous people (Provincial Health, 2020). The curriculum incorporates historical information, current research, and Indigenous perspectives to effectively combat systemic racism and stereotyping in the health care setting. Coursework is delivered through a basic learning management system, which incorporates text, interactive multimedia, and discussion forums to facilitate learning (Provincial Health, 2020). For a quick video overview on the San\u2019yas course design, go here<\/a>. The program is predominately learner-centered, encouraging learners to acquire knowledge through self-reflection, in addition to multimedia content delivery. Reaching over 30,000 people nationwide, San\u2019yas has experienced significant success and growth, including curriculum adaption to other contexts such as child welfare, public sector, justice, and mental health, earning Ward the Leadership in Quality Award in 2017 (BC Patient Safety, 2020).<\/p>\n

To me, Ward\u2019s contribution to the field of education and technology (ed \u00a0tech) is thus: the success of the San\u2019yas program demonstrates that online learning does not need to incorporate advanced, cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and analytics to be effective or adoptable; rather, it\u2019s about innovating effective learner-centered experiences through strong pedagogical design and technologies that operate to facilitate learning. Ward\u2019s San\u2019yas program serves as a case study and reminder to focus on the end goal: learning.<\/p>\n

In sum, Ward\u2019s contributions to the field arguably support the notion that there is no \u201ctechnological utopia\u201d (Weller. p.175); meaning, technology alone will likely not solve the problems within the education industry, for we need to view such solutions from the pedagogical perspective and then branch out to ed tech accordingly.<\/p>\n

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References<\/p>\n

BC Patient Safety & Quality Council. Quality awards \u2013 Cheryl Ward.<\/em> Retrieved September 15, 2020, from https:\/\/bcpsqc.ca\/quality-awards\/winners\/cheryl-ward\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Provincial Health Services Authority in BC. San\u2019yas indigenous cultural safety training.<\/em> Retrieved September 12, 2020, from http:\/\/www.sanyas.ca\/home<\/a><\/p>\n

Ward, C. (2018). Teaching about race and racism in the classroom: managing the indigenous elephant in the room. <\/em>Simon Fraser University. https:\/\/summit.sfu.ca\/item\/18705<\/a><\/p>\n

Weller, M. (2020). 25 Years of Ed Tech. Athabasca University Press.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771993050.01<\/a><\/p>\n

Image Credit: https:\/\/bcpsqc.ca\/blog\/catching-up-with-the-2017-quality-award-winners\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image courtesy of the Patient Safety Council of British Columbia Special Acknowledgement: As a Metis student of education research, I would like to acknowledge my fellow indigenous peoples. Also, to the right of Cheryl Ward, imaged above, is my father-in-law Dr. Doug Cochrane, former chair of the B.C. Patient Safety and Quality Council. Cheryl Ward, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt523","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0163\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}