Change management

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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:

• The organization
• Organizational subunits and their dependencies
• Individuals (e.g. teachers).

Tony Bates'

Tony Bates' book is one of the most influential texts in today's e-learning literature.

Links

• Change management at elearning-reviews.org (excellent summaries)
• 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.

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]

Mintzberg, H. 1979. The Structuring of Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.