https://zenodo.org/record/3804014#.XsvfomhKiUl
Abstract
Employing a design-based research approach, this paper examines student reactions to an online graduate-level course on leadership and management principles constructed using chaos leadership theory and heutagogical learning principles. Chaos leadership theory shares characteristics with heutagogy, most importantly the emphasis on the development of learner capacity to prepare them for the complexities of today’s workplace, where traditional conceptions of leadership are becoming anachronistic. To teach chaos leadership and management requires a heutagogical learning approach, where the instructor relinquishes ownership of the learning path to mature learners capable of co-creating the learning environment, from curriculum to assessment. Learner autonomy takes place in a collaborative system with a flexible curriculum and negotiated assessment. The learner-generation of content provides both the learning process and the learning product, so the curriculum is unknown and unpredictable. This level of chaos can be disorienting for students accustomed to a greater level of structure. Design-based research is the methodology of choice for technology-enabled learning because it focuses on the pedagogical design at the course level, providing validity to the research because results can be used to improve practice in the immediate context (and likely others). A mixed methods analysis of student evaluations of teaching can illuminate how students react to heutagogical learning experiences, and inform further efforts to enhance course design.
Keywords: instructional design, student engagement, learning analytics, online learning; leadership education
Openo, J. (2020). Chaotic by design. Student reactions to a graduate-level leadership course designed with self-directed learning principles. Paper presented at World Conference on Online Learning (pp. 699-713). Retrieved from https://zenodo.org/record/3804014#.XsvfomhKiUl
In:
Brown, M., Nic Giolla Mhichil, M.,Beirne, E., & Costello, E. (eds.) (2020). Proceedings of the 2019 ICDE World Conference on Online Learning, Volume 1, Dublin City University, Dublin. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3804014