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Revision as of 13:24, 3 June 2006
Definition
Change management refers to management methods to plan, control and implement programs of important changes.
Why changement management ?
- Most educational organizations are very conservative. An educational technologist not only has to worry about pedagogy and technology, but also about organizational issues.
Levels of intervention:
- Policy making (in particular regarding curricula issues, infrastructure services, etc.)
- The organization
- Organizational subunits and their dependencies
- External facilitators (e.g. teacher development organizations)
- Individuals (e.g. teachers).
Models
This chapter should contain a short overview on various change mangament related models, frameworks, etc. and point to other pages.
Change management procedure models
- Engeström's learning by expansion
- Bates managing technological change model
Organizational structure
- Structure is strategy (at least to a certain point). Therefore it is useful to understand how structure is related to function (and the other way round).
Empowerment
- An important issue is how to empower teachers. In particular, to avoid a conflict between an official "empowerment" discourse and at the same time making life difficult for teachers who actually go for it ....
- See the Baruch empowerment model
Links
- Change management at elearning-reviews.org (excellent summaries)
- Organization Strategy on Google Answers. (Scroll down, excellent list).
- Fre M. Beshears' Executive summary of Tony Bates Managing Technological Change (retrieved 10:48, 26 May 2006 (MEST)).
References
- Bates, A.W. (Tony) (2000), Managing Technological Change: Strategies for College and University Leaders, San Franciso: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-4681-8.
Tony Bates' book is one of the most influential texts in today's change management for e-learning literature.
Further reading
(these are texts that need to be sorted out)
- Kevin Crowston (????), A Taxonomy Of Organizational Dependencies and Coordination Mechanisms, [1]
- Malone, Thomas, W. ,Kevin Crowston, Jintae Lee and Brian Pentland, Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes. [2]