ST&C - Fostering Cultural Change in Systems

Full Session: Panel Discussion

Short Description

In a joint panel between the Systemic Thinking Change and the Culture, Learning & Technology divisions, AECT members will explore the practices that stakeholders of learning organizations are adopting and will infer how these practices shape their beliefs and mindsets towards the learning process, as well as how these beliefs and mindsets are enabling or limiting desired systemic and cultural changes.

For example, when learners use their own electronic devices to support their learning in class and follow personalized paths, ownership of their learning process is stimulated. This makes them confident to try out new things despite failure chances. A community in which members feel empowered to “try out” fosters a culture that innovates and seeks constant improvement.

From the perspective of their divisions, panelists will reflect upon how systemic changes impact culture and how cultural changes give way to major systemic changes. Panelists will invite the audience to share their perspectives about the changes that are taking place in education and how they see them affecting the culture of the educational communities that they are part of.

Sub Unit

• Systems Thinking & Change

Chair

• Monica Sulecio de Alvarez, Independent Distance Learning Experience Designer & Coach

Submissions

• How are new habits in learning and technology use fostering systemic and cultural change? - Monica Sulecio de Alvarez, Independent Distance Learning Experience Designer & Coach; Luis Camillo Almeida, Jackson State University; Julaine Fowlin, Auburn University, Harrison School of Pharmacy; Camille Dickson-Deane, University of Melbourne; Akesha Horton, Michigan State University