EDU781: Managing Change

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
15

Overview

Managing Change covers the principles, practices, challenges and burdens for initiating and implementing change management efforts for adult education programs. It provides the knowledge, skills and abilities to accurately and completely plan, implement and evaluate change management efforts for adult education programs. The course blends two instructional strategies. First, the student explores the basic principles and related practices for applying the elements of change management. Second, the student applies the learned principles and practices in a sponsored synthesizing project applying change management principles, practices and methodologies to a change effort in an actual adult learning organization.

The course project, Change Management Project, is designed to demonstrate mastery of the course objectives. Change management principles, practices and methodologies will be applied to one of the sponsoring organizations adult education programs. A final written report detailing the outcomes of the application of the change management process will be the synthesizing course project.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Appraise and explain the roles of change management in adult education organizations.
  • Compare, contrast and evaluate various models of change management in adult education organizations.
  • Analyze and integrate the process of change management in adult education organizations.
  • Interpret and assess the change management process from multiple role perspectives (change agent, change target, leader, program manager).
  • Define the type, and analyze and evaluate the significance of organizational change drivers in adult education organizations.
  • Appraise and categorize the types of and importance of impediments and barriers to organizational change efforts in adult education organizations.
  • Assess and describe the relationship between organizational change drivers and impediments and barriers to organization change efforts in adult education organizations.
  • Evaluate and formulate applications of major contemporary issues in change management to adult education organizations.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
EDU781 texts are available from the JIU/Follett Bookstore