1st Edition
Systems Thinking for Instructional Designers Catalyzing Organizational Change
Systems Thinking for Instructional Designers offers real-world cases that highlight how designers foster continuous improvement and manage change efforts across organizational contexts. Using a systems thinking approach, each case describes a holistic process that examines how a set of interdependent elements can be analyzed and coordinated to influence change. Instructional designers, faculty, program directors, digital learning leaders, and other development specialists will learn how systems thinking can solve authentic, real-world challenges. The book’s rich narratives cover both successes and failures of meaningful growth, paradigm shifts, and large-scale problem-solving in a variety of settings, including education and industry.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
Integrating Systems: A Practical Guide
Bond, Sockman, Tamim, & Blevins
VISIONARY CHANGE
CHAPTER 2
System Thinking the Vision for Change in the Reading Intervention System (K-12)
Clark
CHAPTER 3
System Collide and Cooperate (Education/International)
McDonald
CHAPTER 4
Rethinking Classroom and Instructional Support Management in Adult Higher Education (Higher Education)
Screnci
CHAPTER 5
Supporting Student Voice to Protest and the Impetus for Change (K-12)
Starnes & Sockman
STRATEGIC PLANNING
CHAPTER 6
Improving School Culture Through Systematic Changes (K-12)
Askins & Breiner
CHAPTER 7
Community Health Assessment: Best Practices through a Systems Thinking Approach (Health care/International)
Gunther & Cole
CHAPTER 8
A Systems Approach to Designing Instructional Credentialing Protocols: Addressing Chaos, Transparency, and Performance (Health care)
Stefaniak
IMPLEMENTING CHANGE
CHAPTER 9
Applying Systems Thinking to Consider the Interdependencies Among Subsystems (Higher Education)
Adrian & Hilaire
CHAPTER 10
Implementing a Personalized Learning Initiative in a Large Urban School District (K-12)
Azukas
CHAPTER 11
Systems Thinking in Undergraduate Health care Education and Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education (Higher Education)
Baker
CHAPTER 12
Applying Instructional Design Principles to a Common Challenge in Health care Research (Health care)
Brishke et al.
CHAPTER 13
Inclusive Histories: Using Systems Thinking and a Team-based Approach to Develop and Implement a U.S. History Curriculum Rooted in Social Justice (K-12)
Fletcher
CHAPTER 14
A Journey to Quantified Blood Loss in a Tertiary Perinatal Setting (Health care)
Homsi, Horne, Tamim
CHAPTER 15
Structuring and Supporting an Online Doctoral Program: Administrative and Academic Challenges (Higher Education)
Jeffries, Tamim, Becton, and Bogiages
CHAPTER 16
Let's Idea Relay: Strategy for Harnessing Collective Intelligence (Higher Education)
Lin
CHAPTER 17
The Case of Situated Learning Experiences for Secondary School Adult Certification (Education/International)
Sulecio de Alvarez
MANAGING CHANGE
CHAPTER 18
A Case Study of Social-Technical Systems Approaches and Educational Video Animations (Health care/International)
Bravo-Lutomia-Reeves-Medendorp-Bohonos-Gardner-Pittendrigh
CHAPTER 19
Systems in k-12 education and their impact on providing excellence in supervision (K-12)
Connors
CHAPTER 20
COVID-19 Forces More Engaged Online Learning Strategies: A Systems Thinking Approach for Successful Course Delivery (Higher Education)
Gunther & Samdperil
CHAPTER 21
Innovativeness: The Capacity for Building and Sustaining Change (K-12)
Lieux
CHAPTER 22
Community Based Adult ESOL Instruction: Challenges and Successes of Moving to Online Teaching (Education/International)
Salem
CHAPTER 23
Creating a Sustainable After-School Elementary School Literacy Program in Partnership with University Pre-Service Teacher Technology Course (K-12)
Sockman
EVALUATING CHANGE
CHAPTER 24
Registration Strengthening Program in 16 Districts (Health care/international)
Kusumaningrum, Handayani, Sari, Usman
CHAPTER 25
Scaling down and changing up: Leveraging microlearning for professional development in the pharmaceutical industry (Healthcare)
Lockee
CHAPTER 26
Fortifying Systems Thinking and Change through Needs Assessment (Industry)
Regenold & Murphy
Biography
M. Aaron Bond is Senior Director for Learning Services at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.
Suha Rahif Tamim is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education in the College of Education at University of South Carolina, USA.
Samantha J. Blevins is Senior Instructional Designer & Learning Architect in the Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning at Radford University, USA.
Beth R. Sockman is Professor and Co-Department Chair in the Department of Professional and Secondary Education at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.
"Readers of this book can quickly draw quickly from these 25 rare and accessible narratives that demonstrate diverse education problem definitions and solutions found by professionals employing principles of systems theory and systems thinking. These cases resonate from diverse institutional settings ranging from K-12 (urban and rural), higher education (college and university), and health care contexts. Written in the voice of instructional designers and others, the editors of this book offer a symphony for education practitioners. This is a must-read for leaders who can benefit from the many lessons learned and shared by systemic change leaders."
—Eugene G. Kowch, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada
"The authors provide a welcome introduction to systems thinking through carefully constructed teaching cases from the world of education and related topics. The cases enable systems thinking faculty and students to explore this growing field through many accessible yet detailed examples which demonstrate the value of a systems approach to addressing chronic, complex problems."
—David Peter Stroh, Founding Partner of Bridgeway Partners and Founding Director of AppliedSystemsThinking.com
"I’m so pleased to recommend this book to all change agents. This text is an important addition to the literature in the field, particularly given the strong link to practice and the ability to apply the lessons from these cases to the ongoing activities of those who wish to understand the systemic implications of their own change agentry. Given the diversity of cases, there’s something for everyone in this text. This one should be on any practitioner’s bookshelf when looking to make system-wide change."
—Alison A. Carr-Chellman, Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Health Sciences at the University of Dayton, USA
