Your Learning & Leading Journey
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
–George Bernard Shaw
Course Outcome
Learners will synthesize their knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values gained through their digital learning and leadership experiences and present a comprehensive plan on how they developed into digital learners and leaders that can identify and promote innovation, create significant digital learning environments, and lead organizational change.
Module Objectives
Learners will:
- analyze and synthesize all key aspects and components of the DLL program and ePortfolio process that contributed to their development as a digital learner and leader and share this experience along with the comprehensive organization of their innovation project.
- will locate, evaluate and compile web-based resources, experts and communities that will help them in their continued growth and development as digital learners and leaders.
Module 4 & 5 Introduction video
Readings
Revisit the – How to Create your ePortfolio page at – https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=6065
DLL Why, How & What
The Master of Digital Learning and Leading (DLL) is a collaborative learner-centered program that embraces technological innovation through collaboration, active and authentic learning, and the creation of significant learning environments. The fundamental principles of the DLL include:
Why:
We believe that the Digital Learning and Leading program at Lamar University must prepare our learners be digital leaders who can to lead organizational change using technology innovations and shape the future of digital learning.
How:
To do this, the Digital Learning and Leading program at Lamar University provides an innovative, collaborative learning environment which equips our learners with the necessary tools to effectively bring about change in their organizations.
What:
The Digital Learning and Leading program at Lamar University prepares leaders who can create significant learning environments, lead organizational change, and drive innovation in a digitally-advanced century.
DLL Course Goals
EDLD 5302
Learners will take ownership and agency over the learning process and incorporate learner choice and voice in designing authentic projects that use technology innovations as a catalyst for change in their organizational setting.
EDLD 5303
The learner will prepare and submit an eportfolio that demonstrates their mastery of the learning outcomes for previously completed professional development work (Apple Distinguished Education, Microsoft Certified Educator, Google Certified Educator, EDLD 5302, etc.).
EDLD 5304
Learners will be equipped with tools to be a self-differentiated leader who can address the inevitable resistance to change that will occur when launching innovative digital learning initiatives.
EDLD 5305
Learners will identify technology innovations and embrace them as opportunities rather than challenges and proactively use those changes as catalysts to enhance their institution or district’s learning environments.
EDLD 5313
Learners will identify and incorporate constructivist theories to create and implement significant digital learning environments.
EDLD 5314
Students will analyze and assess global educational technology innovation projects to determine what worked and what could be done better and apply those lessons learned to local innovation projects.
EDLD 5315
Learners will be able to assess the instructional impact the implementation of their innovation plans have on creating effective digital learning environments.
EDLD 5316
Learners who work in the area of educational policy and practice will be able to navigate the emerging educational and legal challenges of a knowledge society where most K-12 students are deeply immersed in online communication, having grown up as “digital natives.”
EDLD 5317
Learners will examine a variety of digital environments and other digital resources to effectively communicate with others the practical implementation and the pedagogical value for educational use.
EDLD 5318
Students will apply constructivist learning theories and instructional design principles in the development and delivery of an online course utilizing significant learning environments through selected course management tools.
EDLD 5388
Learners will effectively apply an innovative teaching practice by collaborating with colleagues to evaluate their impact on learners and design and model authentic professional learning (PL) activities that are active, have a significant duration, and are specific to their discipline.
EDLD 5320
Learners will synthesize their knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values gained through their digital learning and leadership experiences and present a comprehensive plan on how they developed into digital learners and leaders that can identify and promote innovation, create significant digital learning environments, and lead organizational change.
DLL Journey Discussion – How Far You Have Come
In this assignment reflect on the DLL principles and the courses goals in the DLL program (listed in the Reading section) that have helped you become a digital learner and leader and consider what you have accomplished in the DLL program so far:
- Self-directed Learning
- Innovation plan
- Organizational change strategy
- Learning Theory Foundation
- Significant Learning Environment
- Instructional Design/Backward Design
- Measurement strategy
- Online/Blended course
- Paper/Presentation
- ePortfolio
- Personal Learning Network
- M. Ed. Digital Learning & Leading
This assignment will be assessed as part of your course participation grade.
DLL Journey Discussion – What’s Next?
In the second part of the discussion assignment we want you to contemplate the next stage of your DLL journey and review the video What it takes to be a great leader.
Consider Roselinde Torres 3 key questions as well as the 3 key questions we have repeatedly asked you consider in various courses in the program as you consider your next steps:
- What worked?
- What could you do better?
- What lessons have you learned?
- Where are you looking to anticipate change?
- What is the diversity measure of your network?
- Are you courageous enough to abandon the past?
This assignment will be assessed as part of your course participation grade.
Digital Learning & Leading Journey Synthesis Assignment
Assignment Value: 150 points
In this final part of your DLL capstone we are asking you to analyze and synthesize all key aspects and components of the DLL program and ePortfolio process that contributed to your development as a digital learner and leader. You must share this experience along with the comprehensive organization of all your work.
Instructions
Create a visual representation of your DLL journey. You can create a video, digital story, Prezi, infographic(s) other digital tools to show your audience:
- Where you started
- Who was involved
- The highs and lows of your learning process
- How you felt throughout the process
- What you have created
- What you have accomplished – (course goals)
- What worked
- What you could do better
- What lessons you have learned
- Where you are now
- What you plan to do next
This list is just a starting point for your synthesis—you need to make this your own. You will need to link to all your existing work and resources to support your visual representation and will also need to create a well organized blog post to further synthesize and support your experience in the DLL program.
At the end of each of the courses with the DLL program, we have asked you to organize and present the module assignments into a cohesive section of your ePortfolio. You will need to do the same PLUS you will also need to organize all your course work into a cohesive section of your ePortfolio. Consider, at MINIMUM, the following sections or components:
- About/Bio (Great place for your learning philosophy)
- Main Interest
- COVA & CSLE
- Projects (Innovation plan)
- Categories
- Archives
- Links
- Social Media connections
- Contact
- Navigational structure
- Reading List/Books etc.
- Search
Ensure that you create an organizational and navigational structure that connects all the components and clearly demonstrates that all the pieces fit into a bigger strategy or approach.
Please remember – This assignment is unique to you, your circumstances, and your organization so you need to keep in mind who your audience is, why and how they will use this information, and what impact you are looking to make.
Submission Details:
To submit the assignment URL you will be required to use the provided document template: Assignment 3-EDLD5315-Submission.docx
- Download the document template,
- Past the URL into the space at the top of the document template,
- Add your name to the document,
- Rename the file with your name and assignment identifier
- Upload the file to Blackboard by or before the deadline.
The School of Education is using this submission process in its online courses for two reasons:
- We wish to provide you an offline copy of the assignment instructions that you can refer to.
- We want to ensure there is a consistent and permanent record of assignment submissions that can efficiently be converted to hard copy.
Formats:
- Use the APA format to cite your sources.
- Use the assignment name, your last name and first initial (assignment name + last name + first initial) to label your assignment submission document.
