TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning
September 2013 Volume 57, Number 5
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 7
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Educational Technologists: Leading Change for a New Paradigm of Education
Sinem Aslan & Charles M. Reigeluth
The transition from the industrial age to the information age has happened and is still happening in our society (Duffy, 2009). However, our current educational systems still operate based on the... More
pp. 18-24
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Whither Thee, Educational Technology? Suggesting a Critical Expansion of Our Epistemology for Emerging Leaders
Eugene G. Kowch
It is possible that some outdated ideas about "management" in our field are constraining our preparation of new educational technologists to lead education organizations in the Knowledge ... More
pp. 25-34
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Exploding the Ivory Tower: Systemic Change for Higher Education
William R. Watson & Sunnie Lee Watson
Higher education faces increasing pressures to change to better meet the needs of modern society. Systemic change applies systems thinking and systems theory to change a complex system to a new... More
pp. 42-46
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Ratings, Quality, and Accreditation: Policy Implications for Educational Communications and Technology Programs in a Digital Age
Ellen S. Hoffman
At a time when higher education is being pushed not only to increase efficiencies to provide greater value and to innovate to meet new global challenges, processes of accountability and... More
pp. 47-54
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Leading Change and Innovation in Teacher Preparation: A Blueprint for Developing TPACK Ready Teacher Candidates
Tommye Thomas, Mary Herring, Pamela Redmond & Sharon Smaldino
When preparing TPACK ready teacher candidates, faculty must incorporate and model TPACK within the teacher education curriculum, which often requires an ongoing change process. But for change to... More
pp. 55-63
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One Educational Technology Colleague's Journey from Dotcom Leadership to University E-Learning Systems Leadership: Merging Design Principles, Systemic Change and Leadership Thinking
Anthony S. Chow
This paper describes my journey from instructional technology professional and doctoral student to instructional technology leader and tenure-track faculty member. I reflect on 15 years of... More
pp. 64-73
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Personal Leadership in Practice: A Critical Approach to Instructional Design Innovation Work
Marcia L. Ashbaugh
An argument is made in this article for a link between leadership and innovation, when innovation is an outcome of the work approaches and practices that underpin an educational technologist's... More
pp. 74-82
