This presentation was developed for the third L-Cloud project meeting at the University of Barcelona - seeking to develop a qualifications profile for Adaptive Cloud Education leaders. .It introduces the main results of research in digital leadership qualifications and competences and is usd to further elaborate the qualifications profile during the meeting. It concerns the competences that education leaders really need to implement Cloud Computing strategies in their organisations
L Cloud: Developing Tomorrow’s Cloud Education Leaders - establishing a qualifications profile
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L-CLOUD: Developing Tomorrow’s Cloud
Education Leaders
IO2 – A QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORK
FOR EDUCATION CLOUD LEADERS BASED
ON SKILLS & COMPETENCES
Karl Donert – EUROGEO
Barcelona, 9 September 2019
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PROJECT GOALS
Develop Guidelines for for Cloud leaders in
education (skills and competences)
Develop a Qualification Framework for Cloud
leaders in education Competence framework
consultation and validation.
Design a training course for developing Cloud
leaders in education
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O2: aim
• to identify and define a set of competences for
leadership in educational cloud computing
• based on the structure and results of O1 -
Guidelines for Skills and Competences for
Adaptative Education Cloud Leaders
• formulated by conceptual mapping
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O2: results
• POD MODEL : three major interrelated axes
– Pedagogical
– Organizational and
– Digital
• leadership functions across all of them
• model presented for discussion and validation with
different key stakeholders expert panels
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Leadership dimensions
• understand knowledge as a set of related facts,
principles, theories and practices;
• theoretical-practical skills such as the ability to apply
knowledge and use know-how to complete tasks and
solve problems;
• competencies such as the ability to use knowledge,
personal, social and professional skills in different
contexts (European Union, 2019).
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Defining Leadership
Central to the project
• Purpose: visioning and strategic planning;
meaning making and sense making in complex
adaptive systems
• learning and teaching, pedagogic leadership
• research and enterprise management.
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Defining Leadership
• People: virtual team leadership of collegiality,
organizational values, behaviors and culture; trust;
• academic freedom; social, legal and ethical issues;
diversity and equal opportunities; gender issues; e-
leadership presence, interpersonal skills and emotional
intelligence
• empowering others; communication skills and
organizational relations including speed of response;
innovation; risk taking; distributed leadership:
ownership.
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Defining Leadership
• Structures and social systems
• organizational structure and policy; management,
finance and operations including distributed leadership
systems, speed of response and change management
skills;
• quality management and monitoring;
• assessment and evaluation; technology, support for
infrastructure, problem-solving skills, information
technology skills, innovation, risk taking.
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Dimension identification
1. Communication, Collabo-
ration and Participation
a. Capacity for communication, collaboration and active par-
ticipation in educational networks in cloud computing en-
vironments.
b. Capacity to establish a shared vision about cloud compu-
ting in learning environments
c. Skill to build professional networks with other school
leaders aiming to guide and support learners in cloud
computing.
d. Dispositions to team building at the organisation
e. Disposition for active participation in educational net-
works in cloud computing environments.
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Dimension identification
1. Leadership, ethics and
responsibility
a. Knowledge on how to effectively and ethically use of the differ-
ent types of cloud computing (public, private and hybrid) and
their services, tools and functionalities (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS).
b. Knowledge on how to integrate cloud computing and resources
to enhance learning objectives.
c. Knowledge on legal issues about safety, data protection, privacy
and healthy use of cloud computing.
d. Knowledge to solve complex problem solving in cloud compu-
ting.
e. Negotiation skills (social and political interactions) with multiple
educational stakeholders, actors and contexts, and decision
making in cloud computing.
f. Ability to manage personal emotions.
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Dimension identification
1. Leadership, ethics and
responsibility
f. Ability to critically assess your own practice as leaders and
develop their understanding of effective and sustainable
leadership.
g. Disposition to accept responsibilities to planning and imple-
menting cloud computing in education.
h. Disposition to Identifying and removing barriers to cre-
ate/maintain a cloud computing infrastructure.
i. Disposition to motivating, encouraging, trusting and valuing
colleagues to create and use cloud computing in their con-
texts
j. Disposition to social and global awareness and responsibility
in relation to cloud computing
k. Disposition to become aware of the ethical dimensions of
leadership in cloud computing.
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CONSULTATION AND VALIDATION PROCESS
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1. How well does the proposed framework addresses leadership
needs?
2. In what respects it might need improvement?
3. Is/Are the competence(s) the most relevant one(s) for
educational leaders?
4. In what respects can they be improved?
5. Are there other competence(s) which might be included?
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CONSULTATION AND VALIDATION PROCESS
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1. Keep it really simple
2. introduce the project / goals / aims to the leaders
3. Split into groups
4. Ask them to validate one area
5. Then each group shares findings – discussion – agreement
6. Introduce whole POD model
7. Does it meet the needs of adaptive leaders?
8. Is anything missing ?