Leading Change and Learning, 7.5 credits

The participants should have completed the courses Scholarship of Medical Education (4ME000), Learning processes (4ME001), Integration of theory and practice (4ME002) and Design and assessment of learning (4ME003).

The aim of the course is to help the participants to develop the skills and understanding that is required to create a learning organisation when leading change and development work and learning in their workplace. The course builds on preceding courses in the Master's programme by creating possibility for the participants to apply their educational skills in practice.

Intended Learning outcomes
On completion of the course, the participants should be able to:

1. Apply development theory in connection with healthcare and education by taking interactions on individual, group, organisational and system level into account.

2. Reflect on his/her own role in relation to group processes and leadership.

3. Analyse how organizational factors affect leadership.

4. Cooperate to create a learning organisation based on a scientific approach/ scholarship of medical education.

The course contains two fields of study, individual development of leadership, and understanding and skills regarding learning organisations, and how learning within medical and the health care field may be developed. These two fields will be studied with the aim at learning how we can work with development to prepare for a continous development within healthcare and education.

The field individual development concerns the understanding and analysis of own leadership in relation to current leadership theory, context, types of problems and learning.

The field of learning organisations is based on literature from both leadership and organisation/management, and organisation and system issues within higher education. Here, the understanding of central concepts are deepened such as culture, complexity, beaurocracy, ethics, negotiation, power, motivation, group processes, change and development work.

The participants will work in small groups. Each group will develop a web-based learning activity that consists of a number of modules with the aim to support the fulfilment of intended learning outcomes. During the first part of the course, the participants work with the creation of the learning activity with support from the course management. During the second part of the course, the participants will study in accordance with one another's learning activities, and evaluate them by means of action evaluation. Participation in the group work is compulsory and provide basis for the individual examination task. At absence additional assignments will be offered. The group work will provide opportunities for the participants to create a course and, based on theory, discuss the  design, development and content of the course constructed.

In parallel with the above the participants willl work with his/her own continuing professional development in leadership and collaborative work.

The examination consists of an individual assignment, which is based on the group's assignment. In the individual assignment participants will critically review the course produced by their own group, personal group and leadership skills in relation to the group task. The assignment should be linked to theory and central concepts of the course.

The course is closed-down and was given the last time in autumn 2014. The examination will be provided during a period of two years after a close-down of the course.

A course evaluation will be carried out according to the guidelines that are established by the Board of education at Karolinska Institutet.
Language of instruction: English