W349: Leadership Echo Chambers: Let’s Dismantle One of Leadership’s Greatest Barriers

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Echo chambers are environments that encourage amplifying and encouraging ideas and these systems have been progressively strengthened in recent history. The rise of media consumption and algorithms, mixed with fundamental human nature, has created a need for leadership to dismantle echo chambers with intention. Let’s discover why and how.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Learn how the rise of media consumption and algorithms, mixed with fundamental human nature, has created a need for leadership to dismantle echo chambers with intention.
• Learn how Echo chambers are environments that encourage amplifying and encouraging ideas.
• Learn how these systems have been progressively strengthened in recent history.

Presented by: Ryan MacTaggart, PhD, Associate Director, Professional Learning, EDUCAUSE