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• • Sze Kiu Yeung@szekiuye

  

  Sze Kiu Yeung March 20, 2011 - 2:09am

   

  According to Beaudoin (2003), leadership “is defined as a set of attitudes and behaviours that create conditions for innovative change, enable individuals and organizations to share a vision and move in the appropriate direction, and contribute to the management and operationalization of ideas” (p.519).

   

  The keywords from this definition that are most appropriate in this capstone assignment are: (1) “attitudes and behaviours”, (2) “innovative change”, and (3) “operationalization of ideas.” Example:

   

  §  Attitudes and behaviours – in order to lead and create the various instructional changes required for the BUS017 course, the author has to start with a the right attitude and behaviour and accept that there is a pressing need for the change in order to move forward.

   

  §  Innovative change – introducing technology in the teaching and learning of BUS017 in the form of the e-learning instructional system is clearly a new and innovative undertaking as far as this course is concerned.

   

  §  Operationlization of ideas – developing and implementing the e-learning instructional system by 1 July 2011 brings an idea to operation (i.e. make it happen).

   

  Furthermore, the technology dimension of the educational problem here resonates strongly with Beaudoin’s (2003) argument that “few institutional leaders would not acknowledge that technological innovation is perhaps the single most compelling factor driving them toward new organizational structures and new pedagogical models” (p.521). 

   

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