Change Management in Practice: Creating a Culture That Promotes Technology Adoption

Abstract

This chapter discusses the initial steps the EdTech team took in planning organizational change. They discuss the team’s shared values, their efforts to develop their own cohesive relationships and the defining of an innovators group at Hostos. This chapter also introduces the Innovations Web, a faculty and staff development framework created by Carlos Guevara for visualizing the culture change the team hoped to achieve. The Innovations Web is premised on the belief that all the EdTech initiatives and artifacts are interconnected nodes (or pillars), each with a role that can have a positive or negative impact on the overall strength of this connected web. The Innovations Web comprises six main nodes that play a more important role in the nurturing and strengthening of the other nodes in the Innovations Web: (a) Ideas Generator, (b) Support Structure, (c) Dissemination and Outreach, (d) Community Building, (e) Continuous Improvement, (f) Innovators Recognition.