Onboard and launch
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Change Management Basics: Four hands-on strategies to support late adopters
Change Management Basics: Four Hands-on Strategies to Support Late Adopters Authored by: Holly Whitaker, PhD, Learning Strategy Consultant at D2L. If your adoption plan includes 100% of your faculty completing a behavior like posting a syllabus to their Brightspace course, how confident are you that you’ll achieve that? We…
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Change Management Basics: Communication Planning considering the Rogers Features of Innovations
Change Management Basics: Communication Planning considering the Rogers Features of Innovations Authored by: Holly Whitaker, PhD, Learning Strategy Consultant at D2L. As a change leader, you are likely responsible for the entirety of Brightspace operations at your institution, and then some. Planning communications around…
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Change Management Basics: Managing Resistance using the Concerns Based Adoption Model
Change Management Basics: Managing Resistance using the Concerns Based Adoption ModelAuthored by: Holly Whitaker, PhD, Learning Strategy Consultant at D2L. As a change leader, you have probably seen your fair share of instances when that resistant faculty member finally gave in and adopted a certain technology. The reasons…
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Change Management Basics: Understanding why people resist change with the Rogers Innovation-Diffusion Model
Change Management Basics: Understanding Why People Resist Change With The Rogers Innovation-Diffusion Model Authored by: Holly Whitaker, PhD, Learning Strategy Consultant at D2L. As a change leader, you are probably shining a huge spotlight on your success stories. For Brightspace adopters at your institution, this is…
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Corporate Leadership Course Design Inspiration
Custom Corporate Course Design Now Available in Learning Center Are you building a brand new course and want some Brightspace inspiration? Visit the Learning Centre to review a sample module created by D2L’s Learning and Creative Services (LCS) Team to showcase the power of creating compelling HTML content, using custom…
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Adoption Planning: How and When to Roll Out New Brightspace Tools
Adoption Planning: How and When to Roll Out New Brightspace Tools Authored by: Holly Whitaker, PhD, Learning Strategy Consultant at D2L. An adoption sprint, or a concentrated effort for the adoption of something specific, is a common practice among change leaders. For higher education, that typically means the sprint…
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Adoption Planning: Setting Desirable and Realistic Brightspace Adoption Goals
Adoption Planning: Setting Desirable and Realistic Brightspace Adoption Goals Authored by: Holly Whitaker, PhD, Learning Strategy Consultant at D2L. If you have participated in any professional development or strategic goal setting experiences in the last few years, you're probably familiar with the SMART method of goal…
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Adoption Planning: Establishing your Minimum Viable Learning Experience Toolkit
Adoption Planning: Establishing your Minimum Viable Learning Experience Toolkit Authored by: Holly Whitaker, PhD, Learning Strategy Consultant at D2L. When starting out with Brightspace, it's tempting to let your instructors find and use the Brightspace tools they want to use when they want to use them. However, this…
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Organizational Readiness & Planning for Success Checklist (Enterprise)
Organizational Readiness & Planning for Success Checklist (Enterprise) Current Activities: Understanding your current workplace learning culture and use/potential use of online learning, while agreeing internally as to your present status is key to success. * How are you currently delivering learning content? Do you have…
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Kick Start Brightspace Adoption Play for Higher Education
Authored by: Customer Success at D2L Refer to the Higher Education Adoption Playbook to check out all the available adoption plays Refer to the Kick Start Brightspace Adoption for Higher Education Workbook to access the download. Getting Started To know if this play is right for you, ask yourself if any of the following…