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Jörg, Ton – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2017
Reinventing education is the ultimate aim of this contribution. The approach taken is a radical new complexity-inspired bottom-up approach which shows complexity as the fount of creativity and innovation. Organizing complexity accordingly may be the foundation for a new complexified vision of education. It all starts with new thinking in…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Educational Change, Creativity, Interaction
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Snow, Jennifer; Dismuke, Sherry; Zenkert, A. J.; Loffer, Carolyn – Teacher Educator, 2017
Teacher educators at one institution of higher education collaborated to reculture systems for a focus on continuous improvement even within mounting accountability pressures. A framework of social network theory allowed for themes to develop around layered interactions of faculty, processes, and professional capital. Findings focused on people,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Improvement, Social Networks, Teacher Collaboration
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Rodriguez, Vanessa – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2013
The teaching brain is a dynamic system that is in constant interaction with the learning brain. If we fail to explore the teaching brain we will continue to design educational reform policies that ignore the most important lens in the classroom: the teachers'. Master teachers recognize their perspective and leverage their teaching brains to embody…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Teacher Improvement, Systems Approach
Bender, Kim K.; Jonson, Jessica L.; Siller, Thomas J. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2010
Can higher education institutions continue using planning and self-evaluation processes that are decades old without any reform? Several recent monographs urge institutions to embrace continuous improvement processes that engage systematic planning and department self-evaluation across whole campuses, but they do not show institutions how to do…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Pina, Anthony A. – 1994
Although instructional systems design (ISD) has traditionally been used as a micro-level model to design instructional interventions, there has been in recent years a trend toward using the systems approach for more macro-level applications such as performance technology and educational systems design. This paper provides an overview of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Degrees (Academic), Educational Change
Hickey, Albert E., Ed. – 1968
References to literature published before July 1968 on computer-assisted instruction (CAI) are presented in this survey. Nine subject area chapters, providing the framework for the references, deal with general statements on CAI (including benefits, state of the art, problems, roles in society, financial support, and trends); applications of CAI…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Educational Change, Educational Finance