Posts by Patrick

Toolkit for Change Projects

Posted By Patrick on Mar 19, 2021

As part of the course I’m taking, LRNT 525, our group (Patrick Guichon, Christopher Rowe, Jonathan Carpenter, Mike MacKay, and Cheryl-Haley Nix) was asked to create a toolkit for improving the success of educational technology change projects. Together we came up with the following 5-step guide for implementing change.  Through the recommended readings for the course and academic research we found that approximately 70% of...

Empathizing with stakeholders – Breaking down barriers to change

Posted By Patrick on Mar 7, 2021

During a course I co-taught at the start of the COVID pandemic, when we were forced to teach entirely online, the other instructors and I, had an idea of incorporating a new technology for facilitating and simplifying online presentations for the student’s final project. In the end it was a success, but it initially hit a stumbling block due to some students’ resistance. I was reminded of this situation when reading Watt...

Change Model in Education

Posted By Patrick on Feb 21, 2021

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...

Evalution of a Successful Change Project in Education

Posted By Patrick on Feb 16, 2021

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...

Managing Change in Education

Posted By Patrick on Feb 14, 2021

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”...