Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations

by Dirk Ifenthaler (Editor), Sandra Hofhues (Editor), Marc Egloffstein (Editor), Christian Helbig (Editor)

Overview

This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital transformation of organizations. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well as organizational requirements for technology adoption. 3. Issues and challenges for designing and implementing digital transformation in learning organizations. 4. Case studies, empirical research findings, and examples from organizations which successfully adopted digital workplace learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030558772
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/06/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dirk Ifenthaler is Professor and Chair of Learning, Design and Technology at University of Mannheim, Germany and UNESCO Deputy Chair of Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching at Curtin University, Australia. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Technology, Knowledge and Learning, Senior Editor of Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Education.

Sandra Hofhues is Professor of Media Didactics/Media Education in the Department of Education and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne. She leads the subproject "Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues and Qualitative Evaluation" in #ko.vernetzt.

Marc Egloffstein is a member of the Learning, Design and Technology group at the University of Mannheim, Germany (Prof. Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler). His research focus is on educational technology in higher education and professional learning and development.

Christian Helbig is research assistant at the Chair of Media Didactics/Media Education in the Department of Education and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne. He is responsible for the subproject "Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues and Qualitative Evaluation" in #ko.vernetzt and does research on organisations with a media-pedagogical focus.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Part I: Digital Transformation.- Opportunities and challenges of digital transformation for organizations; Dirk Ifenthaler.- Media literacy as driver for digital transformation; Guido Bröckling.- NN Sandra Hofhues, Christian Helbig.- Development of a maturity model for digital transformation of organizations; Dirk Ifenthaler.- Part II: International Perspectives on Learning Organizations.- Performance-oriented digital transformation; Minhong Wang.- Impact of digitization on the relevance of further education; Christian Harteis.- Harnessing big data for organizational readiness; Lisa A. Giacumo.- Conceptual change in the face of digitalization; Michael Goller.- Complex change in learning organizations; Eugene Kowch.