Overview of “Digital Leadership & applying the concept to support teaching and learning”
“What is digital leadership?” According to Zhong, L. (2016), “digital leadership” is one of the concepts that described and explained the leadership role shift; and the …show more content…
However, the availability of all the modern digital hardware and software is not the only major ingredient to ensure digital leadership success, the transformation process from the traditional instructional methods to the new digital technology applications demands various other supplementary components. For example, Beaudoin, M. (2015), indicates that preoccupation with technology rather than the application of these digital resources for teaching and learning intensifies a weakness of online educators for not recognizing that the roles of instructional leaders are not the management of technology, but rather the management of change accelerated by technological impermanence.” This notion implies that education administrators should focus more on supporting the application of technology for teaching and learning rather than managing the technology itself. Subsequently, various research studies recommend the following approaches to support the application of digital technology for teaching and