Editor’s note: My Learning Management system is Course Sites. My course name is Malick, S EDLD 5318 Introduction My innovation plan began in part to document the University Press’ (UP) culture ability to sustain itself through a continuation of practices and relationships over several decades. The challenge is that these relationships are not sustainable because […]
Revised Literature Review 5315, Malick, S. June 9, 2017 Part B Literature Review My innovation plan research supports several concepts that I have included to enhance the learning experience of students working at the University Press (UP) utilizing e-Portfolios and the instructional foundations to encourage achievement. The research included and the plan I’ve implemented doesn’t […]
Literature Review 5315, Malick, S. Preface The previous assignment for 5315 Week 2 was to outline our action research plan for measuring our innovation plan for the Digital Learning and Leading Program with support literature documentation review. This assignment is a literature review of the pedagogical concepts and theories behind my innovation […]
Many of us are familiar with Sir Ken Robinson’s TEDtalks on education. An interesting article I ran into this weekend in Forbes by Rob Berger reinforces the idea that market forces need to come to bear down on education policy makers to adapt America’s public education system to the contemporary needs of today. Schools are […]
Introduction and background My action research plan is two-fold, the first is to measure and reflect on my innovation plan to enhance the learning experience of students working at the University Press (UP) incorporating e-Portfolios and the documentation of the Maestro Method and COVA as instructional foundations. The plan draws on the process that […]
Self-differentiated Leadership Friedman’s “Failure of Nerve” emphasized to me that leadership is about making myself into a “presense” to affect change and become a significant influencer in my own right. Furthermore, I never thought of empathy as an ideology expressed by Friedman, but I can accept the concept as he describes it. I disagree with […]
Part A and reflection Includes elements from “Crucial Conversations” Each successive session of the Digital Learning and Leading has provided greater insight to the innovation plan I have been developing. Whether it has been Clayton Christensen’s concepts of disruptive innovation (1995) or Piaget’s constructivist approach to interactive learning, each stage of the program has […]
Reflection The challenge to change and its measure of success will be determined by the roll-out of the ePortfolio plan. It can be rolled out at the beginning of any semester, but the Fall semester is ideal because students and faculty will have two consecutive long semesters to adjust to the plan and the consistency […]
Part A (Part B is the graphic above) The plan for my Influencer Strategy is to emphasize the “Why” of my innovation plan. The Why is “why are we here, what are we doing?” The answer is to prepare our students the best we can for their professional career. The results of my innovation plan […]
“My innovation plan seeks to infuse that passion to the communication department at large – to groom independent, critical thinkers that can serve the greater good of the public. To show people the information that they have the right to know and need to know.” Part A Why? We believe today’s students are the […]