Change+tools

||  Change management tools and/or practices   ||  · ICT infrastructure  · Personnel  · Facilities Define change management approach: Develop change management plan:  · How to use digitally rich ICT environments for teaching and learning  · ICT may lead to initiating global communication and collaboration and develop creative  · Innovative assessment expression || *   You Tube presentation on how to implement Moodle [] ||  Implement change: || *  A comprehensive professional development program to boost confidence, build competence and foster commitment among teachers.  · A series of well-structured information sessions carried out to ensure the ICT is supported and embraced. Week 5 – 9 readings including:
 * ICT project phase  ||   Change management milestones   ||   Outcomes and/or pedagogies:
 * Pre-adoption  ||  Readiness assessment including:
 *  Develop and undertake stakeholder engagement and communications plans
 *  Revise communications plan   ||  · How ICT is being used for learning in ways that deepen understanding of concepts
 *  Providing constructivist learning opportunities
 *  Webinar with opportunity to ask questions about process and policy
 *  Live practice courses
 *  Consult faculty, staff, and students about when and how to change in order to ensure buy-ins and clear communication
 * Adoption  ||   Deliver and test training materials:
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 9.8pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Update and test training
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 9.8pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Deliver training and evaluate
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 9.8pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Identify and communicate quick and long term successes
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 9.8pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> To obtain a positive result, a combination of communication tactics, including written documents, group meetings and opportunities for one-on-one discussions utilised.
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Provide adequate onsite technical support and service to ensure smooth running of ICT.
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 3.6pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt left 121.25pt;"> Organisational learning by Argyris & Schon
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 3.6pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt left 121.25pt;"> Strategic change management by Trowler   || * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">  Train faculty to use the new system in a just-in-time fashion
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Self-paced online tutorials and self-assessments
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Webinar with opportunity to ask questions about process and policy
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Live practice courses
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Mentors (Mentors to receive special training)
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Guides on how to facilitate using Moodle and on how to write content for Moodle courses
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Expert teachers to become the promoters. Teachers are more receptive of advice and guidance provided by other teachers instead of technical experts.
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Narrated screen-capture training tool that shows how to use Moodle and emphasizes useful classroom features
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Onsite technical support and service   ||
 * Evaluation  ||   Evaluate change:
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 9.8pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Monitor stakeholder reactions to change
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 9.8pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Adjust change implementation and communication plans   ||     || * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">  Provide feedback channels to respond to learners' needs in a timely fashion
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Have a dedicated staff to coordinate training for learners
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Collect learner's requests and feedback because communicating at the individual client level provides opportunities for development to respond to learners' needs, fix technical glitches etc.
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Development forums to discuss experiences
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Establish a review group to oversee progress and resolve problems
 * <span style="color: black; 0cm margin: 0cm 27pt 0pt 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"> Engage an external party to formally review the implementation   ||