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• • Sze Kiu Yeung@szekiuye

  

  Sze Kiu Yeung March 20, 2011 - 2:43am

  This e-Portfolio has captured the central educational problem of this capstone assignment, namely: the pressing need for an e-learning instructional system for the BUS017 course in the Diploma in Management Study (DMS) programme at SIM University. The leadership theories and project management techniques that are applicable here include:

   

  §  Complexity leadership

  §  Transformational leadership

  §  Transactional leadership

  §  Transitional leadership

  §  Project management methodology based on SDLC

  §  Project development and implementation cycle with Gantt Chart    

   

  As far as possible, the author has tried to “produce a product in consideration of all course objectives” (Cleveland-Innes, 2011a) that include:

   

  §  “apply leadership theory to…..education”;

  §  “synthesize the opportunities presented by leadership 
       theory to the issues and innovations of distance and
       distributed learning networks”;

  §  “integrate and apply innovative leadership strategies
       for distance and distributed education”;

  §  “use case-based methods to strategize and problem-
       solve in distance education using leadership
       interventions”; and

  §  “consider project management techniques as a
       leadership function.”

  (Cleveland-Innes, 2011b)

   

  Lastly, the overriding aim of this capstone project has been, apart from describing “what leadership strategy would make it happen” (Cleveland-Innes, 2011c), to make the BUS017 course more appealing to students because “for the overwhelming majority of today’s higher education students, superior, eye-opening, and rousing instruction, in the classroom and online, is the urgent and fundamental requirement for most of the faculty” (Keller, 2008, p.107).    

   

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• • Sze Kiu Yeung@szekiuye

  

  Sze Kiu Yeung March 22, 2011 - 2:27am

  "In another classroom, only a fourth of the students enrolled in the class are present for a physics lecture; the remiander had schedule conflicts and will watch the lecture later on video, by logging on to the World Wide Web" (Keller, 2008, p.39).

  Keller - in reference to the use of video technology as a current teaching practice in an American university. Note the situational similarity between the author's educational problem as described in this e-Portfolio and Keller's example.