How might we approach eLearning Readiness in Schools and Districts?
This visual framework built from my reading and interpretations of Bates, A. W. & Sangrà, A. (2011) and and it is meant to provide a better understanding of the two types of cultures that exist inside educational institutions.
In order for the model to make sense we need to define these in simple terms.
Pedagogical Culture: The cultural views and expression that place the emphasis on the best possible learning environment for the students.
Institutional Culture: The cultural views and expression that place emphasis on the management of cashflow and how to proceed given cashflow constraints.
Resources: Time, money, human capital
Infrastructure: software, hardware, systems, best practices used for collection and reporting of data to measure against a metric.
Support: The combination and blending of resources and infrastructure (hence the colours)
Person in the middle: Stakeholder in the educational organization trying to create change. It is important to understand it doesn’t matter who this person is in terms of status, even a CEO or a superintendent sits in the middle of this when trying to create change to solve problems.
This inforgraphic was build during a course with Mark Bullen while attending UBC’s Masters of Education Program. I forget the attribution to the 8 questions, but they are not mine. I wanted to create a visual framework to show the tensions that arise with implementing unified systems and structures inside of opposing or conflicting cultural views and how one might use questions in both cultures to create a more unified experience for the end user or student (seen in the middle).
His website: http://markbullen.ca