Category: LRNT 525

My growth as a Leader

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a person holding a plant.

Please note: This blog post is a course related assessment for the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology program at Royal Roads University. Taking the LRNT 525 – Leading Change in Digital Learning course could not have come at a more appropriate time in my professional career.  In early March, I started in a new role at eCampusOntario where I will be a project manager to lead a significant digital change within the province of Ontario. The project is title Open at Scale – Business Open Educational Resources (OER) and will focus on nine highly enrolled post-secondary business courses… Read More

Change Management in Digital Environments

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A sign that says something needs to change.

Please note: This blog post is a course related assessment for the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology program at Royal Roads University. Assignment two of LRNT 525: Leading Change in Digital Learning tasked students to use their learning network to reach out to colleagues to discuss their experience with change management. As an approach to garner authentic responses, I decided to use a combination of Twitter to promote the communication to my colleagues and Google Forms to capture the data anonymously. Participants were provided with a definition of change management provided by the Society for Human Resource Management… Read More

Leading Change in Higher Education and Digital Learning Environments

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A sign that says change.

Please note: This blog post is a course related assessment for the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology program at Royal Roads University. While reviewing the readings for unit two on the topic of leading change, I found myself reflecting on my past two years working within the Centre for Academic and Faculty Enrichment at Durham College. Within my first year in the department, I reported into five separate managers and our department structure and roles within the department significantly changed. The initial changes to our department occurred in small scale changes that were easier to manage and did… Read More

Digital Leadership Within the Field of Education

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A sign that says do something great.

Please note: This blog post is a course related assessment for the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology program at Royal Roads University. Unit one of the LRNT 525 – Leading Change in Digital Learning course contained several readings that I was able to relate to in my roles as a Learning Technologies Specialist and Part-time Professor at Durham College. For the purposes of this post, I will focus on my position as a Learning Technologies Specialist within the Centre for Academic and Faculty Enrichment. In my ten years at Durham College, I have had the pleasure of leading… Read More