Educational Innovations Beyond Technology Nurturing Leadership and Establishing Learning Organizations /

• Main Authors: Law, Nancy (Author), Yuen, Allan (Author), Fox, Robert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational technology.; Educational Technology.; Learning & Instruction.

Providing today’s students with competitive skills—information literacy, problem-solving, communications—is an ongoing challenge requiring multiple levels of classroom and administrative support. Yet many institutions commit to technology initiatives without clear long-term goals or support structur...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Introduction and Research Methods
• Ch 1 Introduction – context and purpose of the book
• Ch 2 Research methods
• Part II Classroom Level Analysis
• Innovations and dimensions of change
• Pedagogical practices and innovations
• Innovating change at the classroom level
• Part III School Level Analysis and Beyond
• Innovating change at the school level
• Interplay between school level and classroom level factors
• Socio-cultural dimensions of educational change: cross-regional comparisons
• Part IV Nurturing Leadership and Establishing Learning Organizations
• Changing roles in changing times: network of learning organizations for leadership development
• Research into practice: an online case study database for leadership and profession development
• Working with the SITES database of case studies
• Part V: Conclusion
• Thinking beyond technology
• Bibliography.