ERIC Number: EJ908108
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Publication Date: 2010-Nov
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Transforming Distance Education Curricula through Distributive Leadership
Keppell, Mike; O'Dwyer, Carolyn; Lyon, Betsy; Childs, Merilyn
ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, v18 n3 p165-178 Nov 2010
This paper examines a core leadership strategy for transforming learning and teaching in distance education through flexible and blended learning. It focuses on a project centred on distributive leadership that involves collaboration, shared purpose, responsibility and recognition of leadership irrespective of role or position within an organisation. Distributive leadership was a core principle in facilitating the transformation of learning and teaching through a Teaching Fellowship Scheme that empowered leaders across a regional distance education university. In parallel, a design-based research project analysed the perceptions of the Teaching Fellows in relation to blended learning, time/space, peer learning, innovation and equity issues in relation to distance education. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Transformational Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Blended Learning, Fellowships, Change Strategies, Transformative Learning, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Access to Education, Time Management, Barriers, Critical Thinking, Educational Practices, Research Projects, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation
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