This document discusses the leadership and management challenges of implementing cloud-based technologies in education. It identifies several issues that educational organizations may face when deciding to move to the cloud, including technological, social, economic, cultural and pedagogical challenges. The document provides guidelines to help leaders and managers in this transition, including understanding the cloud and its potential benefits, recognizing the need for change management, and establishing a digital strategy and pathways for successful implementation. It recommends that leaders seek advice and look to the future to best support cloud-based developments in education.

1. iLeader: Leadership and
Management Challenges for
Education on the Cloud
Karl Donert, Director: Innovative Learning Network Ltd.
Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu
President EUROGEO
kdonert@yahoo.com

2. iLeader / iManager Aims
• Leadership/management essential if and when
educational organisations decide to implement
Cloud-based technologies
• Multiple issues - technological, social, economic,
cultural and pedagogical
• Need guidance to support others making or
considering Cloud-based developments
• Understand better how should education respond
to the potential of the Cloud?

3. Leaders or Managers?
An identity crisis

4. Leaders or Managers?
An identity crisis

5. WG1: Managing, leading the
Cloud in education
http://tinyurl.com/kr4rzcq
• Leaflet (for leaders/managers)
• Report: policy issues
• Guidelines for change
• Workshop
iLeader –
inspirational
leadership

6. What do leaders need to implement
the Cloud in Education?
http://tinyurl.com/socleaderw

7. Big Issues

8. Challenges

9. Lots of Challenges
• EU focus entirely outside
education
• Main goal – clear policy
– national education –
subsidiarity - problem
• No vision – to meet C21
needs
• No clear decision making
• Disruption – reactive
• e-Leadership for change
• curriculum –
qualifications – slow to
change
• What’s in it for me? – is
there a pedagogical
added value
• Future, smart cities -
learning needed – smart
citizens

10. Challenge:
Complexity
Linking use of services and tools to individual
learners – specified by instructional strategies
A Principal's Reflections: It's Not a Technology Issue https://t.co/Wwjq9xUVdN
The Head Masters Story

11. Korte WB, Hüsing T and Dashja E, (2015), E-Leadership:
Digital Skills for SMEs, European Communities, www.eskills-
lead.eu
Cloud Readiness:
leadership and skills
The Education Organisation Story

12. Bringing change
to my
organisation
(Kommers en Dresen)

13. Keep an eye on key features
SYSTEMS:
Hardware
software
PEOPLE: Who’s in my
team?
What do my people need?
CULTURE: How do
we work together?
Open and
transparent cloud
STRUCTURE: In which
group do pupils learn?
Which team of teachers
helps the pupils?

14. Challenge: The Next
Revolution?
Gakstatter E. (2014), Will the Next Industrial Revolution Be Bigger than the First? Will Geospatial Technology be Part of It?,
Geospatial Solutions, http://tinyurl.com/qxhohom
Waves of
innovation,
after Kondratiev
(1925)
The Innovative Company Story

15. Catalin Nicolae TRUFIN
Head of European Projects
An Education Technology
Company

16. Doukas School, Athens
Staying One Step
Ahead …

17. iLeader: Leadership and Management Challenges
for Education on the Cloud?
Guidelines for implementing the
Cloud in education
Karl Donert, Director: Innovative Learning Network Ltd.
Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu
President EUROGEO
kdonert@yahoo.com

18. http://tinyurl.com/soc-leader1

21. Understanding the Cloud

22. Understanding the Cloud

23. Understanding the Cloud

24. Lack of eLeadership

25. Lack of eLeadership

27. Leaders Recognising the
Benefits from the Cloud
Potential of the Cloud

28. Leaders Recognising the
Benefits from the Cloud
Potential of the Cloud

29. Leaders Recognising the
Benefits from the Cloud
Potential of the Cloud

30. Leadership For Change
Expectations from the Cloud

31. Leadership For Change
Expectations from the Cloud

32. Leadership For Change
Expectations from the Cloud

33. Leadership For Change
Expectations from the Cloud

34. http://tinyurl.com/soc-leader1

35. Disruptive Innovation

36. Disruptive Innovation

37. Creative Disruption

38. Creative Disruption

39. Change Management

40. Change Management

41. Change Management

42. Leaders, Managers
Where can you go for help?
Getting Advice

43. Leaders, Managers
Where can you go for help?
Getting Advice

44. Four recommendations for
leaders and managers
1. Create a digital strategy
2. Build Cloud capability
3. Establish pathways for success
4. Keep an eye on the future
http://tinyurl.com/socleader

45. Recommendationshttp://tinyurl.com/socleader

46. Recommendationshttp://tinyurl.com/socleader

47. Recommendationshttp://tinyurl.com/socleader

48. Recommendationshttp://tinyurl.com/socleader

49. How can we help leaders best?
http://tinyurl.com/socleaderw2

50. Karl Donert, Consultant
Innovative Learning Network
President, EUROGEO
kdonert@yahoo.com
@karldonert