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.
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.
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.