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Learn about Canada’s history of colonization and the theoretical background of coloniality. Explore the idea of self-location and determine how you are personally situated within the ongoing colonial project. Establish goals for moving forward with your decolonizing learning journey. Focus is decolonizing the self.
Examines the roles that higher education plays in contributing to society from both Canadian and international perspectives. Considers how international, national and provincial policies shape and define higher education systems. Takes a critical stance on higher educational institutions’ design and organization. Considers issues of governance and institutional culture in various higher educational contexts.
Examines the leader’s role in initiating, supporting, and sustaining innovation and change in higher education environments. Explores leadership and change-oriented models and theories that can be applied to higher education contexts. Considers the important role of organizational culture and how it affects both leadership approaches and organizational change models. Articulates how communication, collaboration and collegiality influence the change process. Engages participants in how to work effectively with disparate stakeholders (students, faculty, staff, government, interest groups, etc.) to promote positive organizational change.
Examines how the finance, marketing, labour relations, and recruitment functions of higher education institutions need to work together to support enrolment growth and institutional development. Considers the implications and opportunities for developing effective collective bargaining processes. Explores the innovative ways that higher education institutions raise funds, market programs, and develop recruiting strategies to support programs and services.
Focuses on the development of effective and practical plans using a results-based and systems-thinking focus. Explores various models and frameworks for developing both strategic and operational plans. Introduces systems thinking models, concepts and tools for examining complex and inter-dependent issues of significant importance to the post-secondary educational leader. Explores the philosophical and historical antecedents that inform current systems thinking models as well as current approaches to educational planning and development. Examines the role of evidence-based decision making and the use of data-driven strategies in support of developing, implementing, and reviewing plans. Investigates institutional management and planning as an inclusive and collaborative process.
Introduces the concept of public accountability and what it means in a post-secondary context. Explores the roles played by quality assurance and accountability systems in supporting organizational effectiveness. Looks at current models of quality assurance. Examines tensions between the concepts of improvement and accountability and considers the interests and perspectives of different internal and external stakeholders towards assuring educational quality.
Introduces the range of models for integrating technology into the higher education learning environment. Examines the impact of introducing online learning into a traditional institution as well as the role of social media in supporting student learning. Explores student service options required in technology-mediated learning environments and the challenges involved in their provision. Considers the needs of students, and the role of staff and faculty professional development programs in supporting students.
Explores the core concepts of Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM). Requires critical analysis of theory and its application in practice; the challenges leaders, practitioners and institutions encounter pertaining to SEM; strategies aligned with the recruitment and retention of students; and the different stakeholders’ perspectives of SEM.
Critical analysis and application of strategic enrolment management theory, skills and knowledge. Explores the key components of a SEM plan, analyzing of enrolment data, financial reports and alignment of academic and co-curricular programs.
Differentiate the concepts of Indigenous resurgence, Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation. Explore processes in educational systems that contribute to decolonizing outcomes, including embodied learning, land-based learning, Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous pedagogies, research as ceremony, and community-embedded learning. Focus is decolonizing in the system.
Explore what it means to enact pluriversal relationships in educational systems. Deconstruct hierarchal, binary, and authoritative assumptions about relationship in educational systems. Develop a communitarian orientation to educational relationships, focused on trust, generosity, and centering multiple perspectives. Focus is on decolonizing relationships within the system.
Engages students in exploring a systematic approach to the design, development, and evaluation of technology-enhanced learning environments. Enables students to create technology-enhanced learning environments that demonstrate effective and meaningful integration and synthesis of instructional design and technology concepts and principles.
Examines the links between graphic design principles and the planning, design, and creation of effective learning materials in print, online or blended environments. Explores basic principles of graphic design, including layout, typography, and colour theory. Examines the key learning theories underpinning the connections between graphic treatment and learner engagement and cognition.
Explores project management techniques and frameworks in the context of instructional systems design (ISD). Examines the intersections of project management, instructional systems design (ISD), and instructional design (ID). Builds an understanding of the application of project management to address learning needs in a variety of contexts. Exposes students to the importance of teamwork in the application of project management and instructional systems design (ISD).
Investigates foundational issues underpinning learning technologies. Examines the histories, theories, debates, and contemporary developments of the field. Provides a well-rounded and in-depth understanding of critical issues in learning and technology and their impact on society.
Explores a variety of design models and approaches in creating exemplar learning environments. Analyzes and gains an appreciation of student and stakeholder needs. Investigates effective and ineffective designs. Explores the role of innovation in re-imagining learning environments. Applies a design mindset to solve real-world problems.
Examines aspects of leadership and change as they affect the creation and implementation of digital learning environments. Develops leadership and change management skills. [For more information please visit the MALAT course site.]
Requires students to identify and investigate a topic of personal interest related to learning, technology, design and innovation. Facilitated through the execution of a personal learning plan and supported by one-to-one faculty-student mentoring. [For more information please visit the MALAT course site.]
Supports students in producing a digital learning resource of personal significance and relevance. Examples include, but are not limited to, the creation of an instructional module, a series of learning objects, an open educational resource, a series of tutorials, an app, or any other tool, technology, or resource of student’s choice. Facilitated through the execution of a personal learning plan and supported by mentoring from the instructor, peer-to-peer and digital learning networks and communities. [For more information please visit the MALAT course site.]
An experiential course that enables students to design and facilitate digital learning experiences on contemporary topics of interest; investigate emerging topics in learning, technology, design and innovation; and evaluate digital learning experiences and facilitation strategies. [For more information please visit the MALAT course site.]