Capacity building is not something that happens only through a series of training courses, which is a view we often take of staff learning needs. Capacity building is an ongoing process that you, as a change leader, have to actively manage with the support of other stakeholders. It is about delegating responsibility and building leadership  and management skills across a distributed range of stakeholders in your school. In this lesson we will seek to answer three questions to help us understand and better manage capacity building. These questions are:

1. How do we make capacity building a collective process?
2. How do we make capacity building evident in practice?
3. How do we ensure capacity building is ongoing?

Learning Objectives

When you successfully complete the lesson you will be able to:

• Describe how the traits of a visionary technology leader foster sustainable change in the school technology landscape;
• Plan and implement a capacity-building process;
• Evaluate the achievements and benefits of e-learning in the school.