Leadership for 21st Century Learning Global Perspectives from International Experts

Name: Leadership for 21st Century Learning Global Perspectives from International Experts
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ISBN: 9780749432041

ISBN-10: 0749432047

ISBN-13: 9780749432041

Edition: 2001

Authors: Colin Latchem, Donald Hanna

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The challenge of managing education effectively is formidable. Written by two education managers, this text focuses on issues associated with good leadership in training institutions. It is based on their own work and interviews with eminent leaders.

Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

List of contributors
Series editor's foreword
Preface
Open and flexible learning: an environmental scan	p. 1
Changes, challenges and choices	p. 15
Developing and entrepreneurial culture	p. 27
Processes of organizational change	p. 41
Leadership in open and flexible learning	p. 53
The University of South Australia: providing leadership in flexible learning	p. 63
The University of the South Pacific: leading change in a multinational, multimodal university	p. 73
Alverno College: transforming the institution to an ability-based curriculum and flexible learning	p. 83
Leading and managing innovation in UK university contexts	p. 93
The University of Twente: leading and managing change via a Web-based course-management system	p. 101
Washington State University: a US rural land-grant university responds to its changing environment	p. 111
Western Governors University: a competency-based virtual university	p. 121
The American Distance Education Consortium: from rural provision to virtual organization	p. 131
The UK Open University: managing success and leading change in a mega-university	p. 139
Indira Gandhi National Open University and the Distance Education Council: institution and system building in India	p. 147
Athabasca University: change management in a non-traditional university setting	p. 157
University of Wisconsin-Extension: exercising leadership in complex organizations	p. 167
Partnerships for change	p. 177
Leading change in the expanded K-12 classroom	p. 187
Leadership in institution building: the National Open School of India	p. 197
Treading a fine line: consultancy in open and distance learning	p. 207
The International Extension College: leadership beyond the mainstream	p. 217
Jones International University: converging marketplace entrepreneurship and education	p. 225
Lessons for the future	p. 235
References	p. 241
Author index	p. 253
Subject index	p. 257
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