Presentation given to leadership professional development group at Dublin City University, 7th May, 2014.

1. Leadership for Teaching and Learning:
Personal Reflections and Takeaways
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
7th
May, 2014

2. Outline…
1. My story
2. My leadership role
3. Some personal takeaways

3. What do you see?
Pop quiz...

4. What do you see?
Pop quiz...

5. If the answer is 3, then what is the question?
Pop quiz...

6. Pop quiz...
The number of months I have been working at
DCU.

7. 1. My story…

8. • Before university
• My academic career
• My move to the dark side
1. My story…

9. 1. My story…

10. 1. My story…

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12. 1. My story…

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14. 2. My leadership role…

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18. 2. My leadership role…
National
Institute for
Digital
Learning

19. National
Institute for
Digital
Learning
Open
Education
Unit
Digital
Learning
Research
Network
Teaching
Enhancement
Unit
2. My leadership role…

20. New Brand - Taking the best of DCU to the world!
A growing range of transnational activities and programmes in
countries throughout the world, including a strategic partnership
with Arizona State University.
TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
CUSTOMISED PROGRAMMES
OPEN COURSES AND RESOURCES
Participate in freely available open courses or take advantage of
some of our fully online study resources and public lectures on
YouTube.
ONLINE DEGREES
A growing suite of fully and partially online modules and
qualifications in areas of research excellence which address some of
the grand challenges facing the world.
We can develop customised short courses and full degree
programmes to meet your specific needs. Courses are available in
our key areas of expertise anywhere in the world.
2. My leadership role…

21. Moodle
At the core of the digital
learning platform with
consistent look and feel.
Adobe Connect
A core tool for real type
interaction between staff
and students.
E-portfolio
A key platofrm for promoting
critically reflective, work
ready 21st century learners.
Other Tools
A range of other core and
custom tools to support a rich
digital learing culture.
New brand for digital learning
platform…
e.g.,
2. My leadership role…

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Mission…
To be recognised as a world leader at the
forefront of contemporary theory, research and
practice in designing, implementing and supporting
new models of digital learning which help to
transform lives and societies.

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25. 3. Some key takeaways…

26. 3. Ask am I doing the right thing
1. Be yourself
2. Believe in yourself
10 points…
3. Some key takeaways…

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28. 4. Leadership is about service
5. Leadership is about listening, linking and
leading in that order
6. Leadership is about raising the aspirations of
others to achieve outcomes they would not
otherwise think possible
10 points…
3. Some key takeaways…

29. “I start with the premise that the function of
leadership is to produce more leaders, not
more followers” — Ralph Nader.
3. Some key takeaways…

30. 7. “The light comes through the cracks”
10 points…
3. Some key takeaways…

31. 8. John F Kennedy…
7. “The light comes through the cracks”
“Some people see the world now and others see the
world how it could be and ask why not”.
10 points…
3. Some key takeaways…

32. 9. Gandhi…
7. “The light comes through the cracks”
8. John F Kennedy…
“Some people see the world now and others see the
world how it could be and ask why not”.
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
10 points…
3. Some key takeaways…

33. 10 points…
10. Think and act like a Goose!
3. Some key takeaways…

34. 3. Some key takeaways…
10 points…
10. Think and act like a Goose!

35. 3. Some key takeaways…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGY9i8iJu94

36. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon
Questions…
http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz