For this course, LRNT 525, I have been asked to investigate models for change, in particular for digital learning environments. In one of the primary articles for the course, Al-Haddad and Kotnour (2015) summarizes a number of systematic change methods from reviewing previous literature studies. These change methods describe the approach and process of implementing change in organizations. Many of these systematic change methods, such...
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In response to Michelle’s question on how do we evaluate the success of a change project in education: I would agree that evaluating the success of a change project can be difficult. Al-Haddad & Kotnour (2015) say that a change project “is deemed successful if it is completed within the predetermined objectives (i.e. completed within budget, within schedule, conforming to the customer requirements and satisfies the...
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While reading “Integrating the Organizational Change Literature: A model for Successful Change” by Al-Haddad and Kotnour (2015) as part of the readings for the course in LRNT 525, one of the things that stood out for me was the importance of incremental change. Al-Haddad and Kotnour (2015) explains that “sometimes the most economical and cost effective change strategy is to adopt the semi-incremental approach”...
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In our previous group activity for LRNT 525, Christopher Rowe, Jonathan Carpenter, Mike MacKay, Cheryl-Haley Nix, and I were asked to rank twenty attributes in order of most to least important as part of being an effective leader (Rowe et al., 2021). As already discussed, it was not easy to come to a consensus on the rankings because of our different “interpretations of the context of a leader” (Rowe et al., 2021, para 2)....
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This post was authored in collaboration with Jonathan Carpenter, Patrick Guichon, Mike MacKay, Cheryl Haley Nix, & Christopher Rowe During our first group activity in LRNT 525, our team was presented with the task of organizing a list of twenty leadership attributes in order of most to least important. The goal of this activity was to come to a consensus on what we collectively thought of as prioritized qualities in a leader. We...
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