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Change, technology and higher education: Are universities capable of organisational change?
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December 2010

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Australasian Journal of Educational Technology

Stephen Marshall

Technology and change are so closely related that the use of the word innovation seems synonymous with technology in many contexts, including that of higher education. This paper contends that university culture and existing capability constrain such innovation and to a large extent determine the nature and extent of organisational change. In the absence of strong leadership, technologies are simply used as vehicles to enable changes that are already intended or which reinforce the current identity. These contentions are supported by evidence from e-learning benchmarking activities carried out over the past five years in universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

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... Teachers must therefore engage in a critical reflection of the action to be carried out, the most appropriate tools, how the contents are to be developed, what external resources are to be incorporated, and so on. The plan should be designed with targets in mind; however it currently appears that this model is being introduced without the necessary forethought (Marshall, 2011). The decisive and thoughtful adoption of this model generally depends on the initiative of individual teachers, given that sufficient resources are not usually available to allow for a correct pedagogical focus (Casanovas, 2010; Francis & Shannon, 2012; Graham, Woodfield, & Harrison, 2013). ...

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Academic Performance in Blended-Learning and Face-to-Face University Teaching
Change, technology and higher education: Are universities capable of organisational change?
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  • December 2010

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology