Open AccessTransforming distance education curricula through distributive leadership
Author(s) -
Mike Keppell,
Carolyn O’Dwyer,
Betsy Lyon,
Merilyn Childs
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
australasian journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1449-5554
pISSN - 1449-3098
DOI - 10.14742/ajet.1017
Subject(s) - distance education , distributive property , curriculum , equity (law) , relation (database) , pedagogy , blended learning , sociology , mathematics education , educational technology , psychology , political science , computer science , mathematics , database , pure mathematics , law
This paper examines a core leadership strategy for transforming learning and teaching in distance education through flexible and blended learning. It focuses on a project centred on distributive leadership that involves collaboration, shared purpose, responsibility and recognition of leadership irrespective of role orposition within an organisation. Distributive leadership was a core principle in facilitating the transformation of learning and teaching through a Teaching Fellowship Scheme that empowered leaders across a regional distance education university. In parallel, a design-based research project analysed the perceptions of the Teaching Fellows in relation to blended learning, time/space, peer learning, innovation and equity issues in relation to distance education.