Leadership, Organizational Learning, and the Successful Integration of Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, 7(14)

Abstract

This study focused on a specific change related to the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into teaching and learning in 15 case study schools in order to explore how leadership influences organizational learning, and to determine if those schools that engaged more frequently in organizational learning behaviours were more successful at implementing ICT in teaching and learning. The work provides empirical evidence that changing school practices, such as using ICT in teaching and learning, is very much dependent upon the level of organizational learning in a particular school. As well, it provides evidence that formal planning processes provide continuity of organizational learning only if there exists a critical mass of leadership that is collaborative and distributed.