1. By Ryan Schrenk
Presented to
ITC Distance Learning Leadership Academy 2009
Building Coalitions of the Willing in Distance Education My Journey So Far

2. Theory and Practice
The people I work with and for should just see a highly functioning divisionI hope
You get to see inside the mind.
I want to share
some theory
Some research/resources
Some solutions
And learn
What are you reading and doing?

3. Quality & Leadership
Quality (Sometimes it can be life or death)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HitotlXEpIE
Leadership (One man has it figured out but do we, as leaders in DE?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC1nzN0a7q4
And another medical example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lttpXpYA6c&feature=related

4. My recent research (and workplace) challenges revolve around:
Leadership Style and leadership.
Find an instrument that will measure/help define high quality Distance Education programs.
Quest for the perfect Distance Education Program at the Organizational Level
Building and being a part of a team
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team John Wooden
Assimilation and application into my workplace

5. My Challenges
Find definitions and dissertatable question
Follow literature trails
Find valuable information for me and my profession

6. Complexity of Quality
Lots of models and theory
Not much hard research built upon them
9% of research in the field on Management
36% on Teaching Theory
21% on Design
Complexity of the Leadership Challenges in the Systems Approach to DE make studies challenging
(Lee, Driscoll & Nelson, 2007)

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8. Pyramid of DE Leader Competencies
(Simonson, Smaldino, Albright & Zvacek, 2009)

9. Meaningful Leadership Quotes for me
Burns (1978) stated the function of leadership is to engage followers, not merely to activate them, to commingle needs and aspirations and goals in a common enterprise (p. 461).
Rost (1989) Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and reflect their real purposes (p. 102).
Leadership is all about mutual purpose & leadership consists of individuals acting as leaders who assume roles within evolving influence relationships requiring their contributions in order to achieve mutual purposes (McCaw 2008, class lecture)
(Create a) list of opportunities and risks then focus on priorities and (how to) get the best people on them (Drucker & Senge, 1999)

10. Leadership, Technology and Change
Book: Bridging the gap: leadership, technology and organizational change for deans and department chairs (2003)
Leaders who dont understand their existing culture, with its own unique attributes and constraints, will be unable to navigate that culture successfully to lead organizational change. Similarly, leaders who dont grasp the vast potential of technology, its impacts, and the resistance factors within their organizational cultures will be unable to employ these tools in ways that transform the organization and its members (Johnson, Hanna and Olcott, 2003, p. 17).

11. 4 Stage Process of Change
Acknowledging work through shock, denial, slower thinking and feelings of being threatened
Reacting (toughest stage to work through) Anger, withdrawal, depression, resistance and attempts to regain control, policies, procedures from before the change. We cant skip this stage but we often do or dont get past it truly.
Investigating Explore new opps, being open, build excitement
Implementing new procedures, systems, comfort with change, trust that change can happen positively
(Johnson, Hanna and Olcott, 2003, pp. 66-69).
---Not unlike Lewin (1952) and/or Toffler (1970)-unfreeze, change, refreeze---but speaks to system approach

12. Brief Lit Review of Quality DE Systems
Significant Work: Moore & Kearsley, 1995
Systems Approach and Definitions
Follow up: Moore and Kearsley, 2005
Current Update on System Approach
Follow up: Handbook of DE, Moore, 2007
Comprehensive Collection History, Teaching/Learning and Policy/Administration
Follow up: Teaching and Learning at a Distance, Simonson, Smaldino, Albright & Zvacek, 2009
Accreditation, Copyright and Leading DE

13. Concentric Support

• Osika, E. (2004). The concentric support model: A model for the planning and evaluation of distance learning programs. ProQuest Information and Learning Company. (UMI No. 3150815)