"Leadership Issues
in Educational Technology"
Mondays 7:20 - 10:00
East Building 121
Office Hours: M 4-7, T 1-4, or by appointment
Office: Commerce II Building, Room 111 (on University Drive just south of the fire station near the center of Fairfax); follow online directions, then go to first floor of Commerce II building next door
Phone: (703) 993-2019
Fax: (703) 993-2013
Email: cdede@gmu.edu
Website: www.virtual.gmu.edu
As a result of this course, participants will be able to :
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience,
and School. The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations. P. Senge, A., Kleiner, C. Roberts, R. Ross, G. Roth, & B. Smith. Doubleday, 1999. Readings from a variety of sources, including files linked to the course website |
This course will utilize a combination of lectures, seminar discussions, media, guest speakers, field trips, and projects to help students exemplify leadership by building knowledge networking communities of learning and practice.
Each student is expect to complete the following two written assignments with their associated activities. Both a brief individual plan for each of the two assignments (submitted via email) and the assignments themselves are due on the dates specified in the Course Outline. In addition, participation in class and via electronic discussions counts for 30% of the grade; this is assessed by both quality and quantity of interactions.
1) Evaluating an Existing Knowledge Network (40%)
This assignment involves selecting an existing "knowledge
network" for detailed analysis; scanning available materials
and related documentation about the network's processes, content,
and evaluation; participating as a member of the network (if feasible);
and synthesizing its merits, demerits, likely evolution, and design
implications into an ten page paper.
After this paper is submitted, the assignment also involves making
a fifteen minute oral presentation to the class about your findings.
This talk/demonstration is required, but ungraded.
2) Planning to Implement a Knowledge Network (30%)
This assignment involves identifying an organization that could benefit from creating a technology-intensive community of learning and practice, assessing the opportunities and challenges in designing and implementing such a knowledge network, developing strategies for overcoming problems and barriers, and synthesizing this analysis into a ten page strategic plan for implementation.
Grades will be based on completion of course requirements and on the scope, quality, and creativity of the assignments, including participation in class and electronic discussions. Incompletes in the course will be given only under unusual extenuating circumstances.
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| 8/30 |
Introduction to the Course Leadership as Building Communities of Learning and Practice |
Instructor's Presentation in First Class Readings for 9/13: Knowledge Mobilization, Dissemination, and Use How People Learn, Chapters 1-2 Dance of Change, Chapters 1-2 J. Roschelle & R. Pea. (1999). "Trajectories from Today's WWW to a Powerful Educational Infrastructure" Educational Researcher, 28 (5), 22-25, 43. (handout) Assignments for 9/13: Post Introductions to Townhall |
| 9/6 | No Class -- Labor Day Holiday |
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| 9/13 |
We Meet Today in the CHd Library, Krug Hall Room 108
An Illustration of Organizational Learning: Simulation of School Change |
Readings for 9/20: How People Learn, Chapter 3 Dance of Change, Chapter 3 Tapped In: An On-Line Teacher Community Assignments for 9/18: scan NCSA Access Center information directions to NCSA Access Center Assignment for 9/20: Please register for Tapped In and download any necessary free software by following these instructions. We will use this tool for synchronous brainstorming the week of September 27th. Please skim MS NetMeeting 2.1 information; we will use this tool for synchronous small-group meetings the week of October 4th. please see submission guidelines |
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9/18 Saturday |
Field Trip to NCSA Access Center in Ballston | |
| 9/20 | Knowledge Networking Technologies |
Readings for 9/27: How People Learn, Chapters 4 -5 Dance of Change, Chapters 4-5 Assignment for 9/27: Practice Communication and Collaboration in Tapped In |
| 9/27 |
No Face-to-Face Meeting Synchronous Brainstorming in Tapped In on the Various Forms of Knowledge Networking |
Readings for 10/4: How People Learn, Chapters 6-7 Dance of Change, Chapters 6-7 Assignment for 10/4: Practice Communication and Collaboration in NetMeeting |
| 10/4 |
No Face-to-Face Meeting Synchronous Small Group Work in Netmeeting on Leadership |
Readings for 10/11: How People Learn, Chapters 8-9 Dance of Change, Chapters 8-9 |
| 10/11 |
No Face-to-Face Meeting Asynchronous Townhall Discussion on Similarities and Differences Between Individual and Organizational Learning |
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| 10/18 | The Emotional and Social Dimensions of Knowledge Networking: Implications for Leadership |
Readings for 10/25: How People Learn, Chapter 10 Dance of Change, Chapter 10 Assignments for 10/25: please see submission guidelines |
| 10/25 | Synthesizing Ideas on Individual and Collective Learning from Readings |
Readings for 11/1: Dance of Change, Chapters 11-12 |
| 11/1 |
Presentations on Existing Knowledge Networks |
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| 11/8 |
No Face-to-Face Meeting Asynchronous Townhall Discussion |
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| 11/15 | No Class - Release Day for Field
Trip |
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| 11/22 |
Presentations on Existing Knowledge Networks |
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| 11/29 |
Synthesis: Strengths and Limits of Knowledge Networks |
please see submission guidelines |
| 12/6 |
No Class -- |
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| 12/13 |
No Face-to-Face Meeting Asynchronous Townhall Discussion |
Resource Sites
Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT)
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
MOO -- The Missing Link in Online Education