THE ORGANIZATIONAL SHIFT OF TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY TO WEB-BASED E-LEARNING THROUGH EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AND SENSEMAKING

 

Mickale Linton

Doctoral Student, University of Charleston, WV USA, mickalelinton@ucwv.edu

 

 

Abstract

The advancement in technology has ushered in myriad changes in the manner in which organizations carry out their daily operations. One of the areas that have been profoundly influenced by the change in technology is organizational teaching and learning. Conventional learning techniques have largely been carried out in a classroom set up or on a one on one basis. This meant that the teacher must meet with the student for the learning and teaching process to take place. This requires a heavy investment of resources by the organization and dedication of the time by the learners. However, the contemporary organizational teaching has shifted to web-based e-learning, where, the teacher can give the learning materials through an online platform. On addition to this, there has been a significant change in the structure, methodology, and pedagogy with the education process shifting from teaching to learning. In an organizational, this has mainly been applied in the knowledge management.

Knowledge management forms an indispensable component of the contemporary organizational development. Many organizations have resources, which are dedicated to the internal knowledge management efforts, often as a part of their informational technology, business strategy, or the human resources management and development. In an organization, the efforts for knowledge management places the central focus on the organizational objectives that include sharing the lessons learned, innovation, and continuous improvement organizational growth.

The executive leadership has come to gain an understanding that, for their organization to remain ahead of the competitors, their people, at all levels, have to have more knowledge than the competitors. This is achieved through learning more and more quickly as compared to the competitors. The organizational people have to learn new take on the emerging technologies, new skills, and new methods of doping things from the research and development to marketing to manufacturing. According to Coffield (2008), the most urgent questions that the executive leadership is faced with whether their organizational people are learning as fast as the changes in the world are taking place.

In a modern business environment, for organizational to unleash change under the challenging circumstances and become determined innovators, (become organizations with original ideas on how to compete and win), they are not just committed to learning but also to teaching. Founded in understanding that thought leadership is the only sustainable form of the leadership in the market.

An example of teaching organization is the Virginia Mason health care provider organization located in Settle USA. The hospital has about 5000 employees and its CEO (Dr. Gray), has nurtured learning and teaching culture in the organization. Since taking the helm of leadership, he became the committed student of the Toyota production and management system. This led to the development of a new way of running the hospital through active learning, and it has also become a teaching organization by establishing an institute that teaches management techniques to individual executives and managers from outside the organization. Organizational are not keeping their set of ideas about marketing, strategy and organizational processes. Instead, they organize conferences, instructive blogs, and even the free e-book located on the web (Wooten & James, 2008).

Keywords: Executive Leadership, teaching, methodology, pedagogy, web-based and sensemaking

 


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CITATION: Abstracts & Proceedings of SOCIOINT 2016- 3rd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, 23-25 May 2016- Istanbul, Turkey

ISBN: 978-605-64453-7-8