Systems Management
Wilhelm
Busch |
This heading involves a number
of levels and kinds of systems. Our committee is tasked
primarily with improving curriculum to improve learning:
how can we improve the existing curriculum system?
However, since we are taking a systems approach, it seems
to me we have to place curriculum in the whole context of
the flow of learning. For example, if we suggest the
whole curriculum needs to be upgraded and made more
rigorous, this will affect other systems such as
admissions, advising, outcomes assess- ment, syllabi,
faculty evaluations, and management. Whatever
improvements we suggest, we'll also have to examine how
we'll know whether the changes in curriculum are indeed
improving learning -- and if they aren't, how to fix
them. Quick view: five organisational theories
Quick view: eight organisational
models
Quick find: resources from the
web
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Organisational Theories,
Models, and People: An Historical Timeline with Links from Organisations and
Consultancy @ OnePine
(from Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, and
Adam Smith to Marx, Taylor, Senge and Lissack)
See also Organisational Culture:
theories, articles, links and Complexity and Chaos
theories, articles, links.
Ecology, Systems Thinking,
and Management by Fritjof Capra
Developing a Methodology
for the Evaluation of Cooperative Systems by Magnus Ramage
A Systems View of
Curriculum: Models of Chaos and Collaboration by Katherine E. Goff
Strengthening Management
Education and Development with Non-prescriptive Guidelines for
the Management/Leadership
Aspect of Decisions by Erwin Rausch and
Ernst Stark
System Based Management
Analysis: A Cross-discipline Approach to Learning Outcome
Assessment by Joy
Benson
Jurassic Management: Chaos
and Management Development in Educational Institutions by Helen Gunter
Complexity -- the Science,
its Vocabulary and its Relation to Organisations by Michael R. Lissack
(See also Chaos and Complexity --
What does that have to do with knowledge management? and "Complexity Metaphors and
the Management of a
Knowledge Based Enterprise: An Exploration of Discovery" by the same author.)
Complexity, Complex Systems
& Chaos Theory: Organisations as Self-Adaptive Complex
Systems
from @brint.com
Complexity and
Organisational Management by Robert R. Maxfield
Managing Change through the
Use of Methodology by Steve Clarke, Brian Lehaney, and Yongmei Nie
From Chaos to Complexity in
Strategic Planning by Steven E. Phelan
Towards a New Generation
Education: An Application of Systems Engineering Principles
(Abstract, Inrtoduction, Education System Definition, Education Needs &
Rationales,
Requirements &
Functional Analysis, Designing a New System of
Education,
Conclusion)
by Mark A. Ottenberg and O. Andreas
Asbjornsen
Theories of Learning
Applied to Technological Instruction by George E. Marsh II (graduate course at
the Univ. of Alabama)
(See also
Marsh's Systems Theory page)
A Brief history of the
Concept of Chaos by Huajie Liu
Total Quality Management
as a Tool to Enhance the Quality of Higher Education Management
in the 21 Century by Bryan R. Cole (See also the definition and chart
system that accompanies this
presentation. Cole is at Texas A&M.)
The Future of the
Community College: A Faculty Perspective (The Academic Senate for California Community
Colleges)
(This is a strong position paper against the extreme
technologizing of education.)
Total Quality Management
in the Scottish Universities by Lynn T. Drennan (an assessment of TQM)
Multiculturalism in
Collegiate Management Education by Edward Henninger
Chaos and Management
Science: Control, Prediction, and Nonlinear Dynamics by T.R. Young and L.
Douglas Kiel
System Dynamics in Education (MIT) ; System Dynamics Index of
Papers Online
System Dynamics and
Learner-Centered- Learning in Kindergarten through 12th Grade
Education by Jay W. Forrester (MIT)
Learning through System
Dynamics as Preparation for the 21st Century by Jay W. Forrester (MIT)
System Dynamics Sites
Around the World
The Age of Social
Transformation by
Peter Drucker
The Shape of Things to Come (An Interview with Drucker)
Wake-Up Call: The Future of
Liberal Arts in a Fast-forward World by Michael Todd
Charter Schools: Voluntary
Associations or Political Communities by Stacy Smith
Charter Schools:
Particularistic, Pluralistic, or Participatory? by Heather M. Voke (response)
"Developing a Systems
View of Education" by
Bela H. Banathy
Resources on Peter Senge's Learning Organization
Summary of Senge's The
Fifth Discipline by
Yonatan Reshef
The Learning Organizations
Homepage
Systems Thinking Practice; Learning Organization; Dialogue Process
"Dialogue - A
Proposal, 1991" (David
Bohm, Donald Factor, Peter Garrett)
Sloan Management Review
Cisco Education Ecosystem
Golf Course Management
