Educational Leadership & OD Change in the IoT Era

An “Overview” on Internet Driven Change

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The Internet and Education

The internet has influenced K-12, higher education and business organizations by:

• Providing accessibility to information• Collaboration• Improving efficiency • Improving communication routes

The Internet and K-12 Education

The internet manifest itself in K-12 education by: • Providing accessibility to teachers’ lesson plans• Collaboration among teachers and school districts across the

country• Allow communication of information and ideas• Improve lesson plans, instructional style, and motivate student

learning

The Internet and Higher Education

• Changes in higher education:• Flexible learning environments

• Distance Learning• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)• Self-paced learning

• Mobile learning/Social networking and 2.0 tools• Web Portals

• Transfer articulation• Web-supported textbooks and learning materials• Online (web-based) research

Managing Change in Higher Education

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The Internet and Higher Education

• Managing Change in Higher Education: The leader’s toolkit:• Orient institutions to outcomes/output

• Facilitating completion (Young, 2012)• Develop and leverage best practices

• What works?• Who is successful and why?

• Understand and embrace blended, style-based learning and instruction• Develop, maintain, increase school to school partnerships and connectedness to industry (Young,

2012)

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Reference: Professional Development for Teachers | Powerful Learning Practice. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://plpnetwork.com/

Web 1.0

Web 3.0

I am not going to talk about:

Or about some of the manifestations!!!!

e.Banking

e.Commercee.Health

e.Insurance

I want to share few things about what has been gathering pace in

a quiet revolution!

The “Internet of

Things”

IoT

What is it?

Billions Of Users

MillionsOf Apps

Mobile Broadband Big Data/ Analytics

Mobile Devices & Apps

2020

Social Businesses Cloud Services

Trillions of Things

Intelligent Industry Solutions

Hundred of Millions Of Users

Tens of Thousands

Of AppsLAN/Internet Client/Server

PC

2011Thousands

Of AppsMillions Of Users

1985

TerminalMainframe

How are Leaders reacting to this

fast paced Change?

Human Resource

(Needs, Skills, Relations)

Symbolic(Power, conflict, competition, org. politics)

Structural(Rules, roles, goals, policies, technology, environment)

Political(Culture, meaning, metaphor, ritual, ceremony, stories,

heroes)

Training for new skills, participation and involvement; psychological support

Anxiety, uncertainty; people feel incompetent and needy

Creation of arenas where issues can be renegotiated and new coalitions formed

Disempowerment; conflict between winners and losers

Creation of transition rituals; mourn the past, celebrate the future

Loss of meaning and purpose; clinging to the past

Communicating, realigning, and renegotiating formal patterns and processes

Loss of direction, clarity and stability; confusion, chaos

Barrier to change

Leadership Counter Measures(Reference: Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2013). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership (5th ed.). San

Francisco, CA) Jossey-Bass.)

Organizations in Frames

Managing change in business

Which principles of sustainability can they apply?

Conclusion

"Over and over again, connecting people with one another is what lasts online. Some folks thought it was about

technology, but it's not.“Seth Godin

Image: Gapingvoid | "Hugh MacLeod" Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.gapingvoid.com

UNTIL YOU REMEMBER THAT IT’S NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

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