Leaders of Learning
Create the future of learning
Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.
2-4 hours per week
What You'll Learn
All of us carry explicit or implicit theories of learning. They manifest themselves in the ways we learn, the ways we teach, and the ways we think about leadership and learning.
In Leaders of Learning, you will identify and develop your personal theory of learning, and explore how it fits into the shifting landscape of learning. This isn’t just about schools, it’s about the broader and bigger world of learning.
The education sector is undergoing a great transformation, and in the coming decades will continue to change. How we learn, what we learn, where we learn, and why we learn; all these questions will be reexamined. In Leaders of Learning, we will explore learning, leadership, organizational structure, and physical design.
The course will be delivered via edX and connect learners around the world. By the end of the course, participants will learn:
- How to define your personal theory of learning
- What leadership looks like in different learning environments
- How an organization's structure reflects its theories of learning
- How physical and digital design shape learning
- How neuroscience will affect the future of learning
Your Instructor
Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Richard Elmore, Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, passed away in February 2021. For the past fifteen years his research and clinical practice has concentrated on the improvement of instructional practice in schools and classrooms, and the development of organizational systems to support those improvements. Most recently, he was focused on the fundamental redesign of learning environments, and the development of leaders and entrepreneurs to create and sustain those environments, all in light of dramatic changes in our understanding of the neuroscience of learning and the exponential growth of digital culture. He was founding faculty director of the Doctor of Educational Leadership (EdLD) program at Harvard.
Ways to take this course
When you enroll in this course, you will have the option of pursuing a Verified Certificate or Auditing the Course.
A Verified Certificate costs $209 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. At the end of the course, learners who earn a passing grade can receive a certificate.
Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.