Goal 4:  Analyze management practices that support and facilitate the various stages of eLearning implementation and maintenance.

Evidence 1: Judith Pirani’s article about bring-your-own-everything (BYOE) illustrates a changing paradigm that is related to e-learning. Educause’s Top-Ten IT Issues: 2000–2014 likewise maps the progress of technology and e-learning. These articles underscore that organizations and their managers must be able to project future growth all while mobilizing a real-time workforce to accomplish the production of the current reality and doing it within fiscal constraints. It is the role of leadership. E-learning is a viable pathway for this evolution of organizational change.

Evidence 2:  Khan’s message is clear; every resource must be maximized in the operation of a business or organization. The approach to achieving efficiency focuses on issues regarding people, the process, and the project (P3). Bates’ theory challenges Khan’s theory further by asserting that efforts must not only be focused on the mission, but they must also be sustainable.

Reflection:  This too is about organizational change.

References

Khan, B. H. (2005). Managing eLearning strategies: Design, delivery, implementation, and evaluation. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.