Linda Marie Ellington

Linda Ellington conducted her doctoral research in Higher Educational Leadership at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. She is a faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University. She worked for IBM for 23 years in various leadership positions. She sits on the Board for Keiser University. She joined IJAVET as an Associate Editor and is a peer reviewer for several journals and textbooks. She is a doctorate committee member for several universities, including the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to teaching and researching, she has written 8 children’s books in the genre of bullying, being good stewards of our planet, and being a family that consists of several different critters!

Publications

MOOCs and the Challenges They Pose to Higher Education
Viktor Wang, Linda Ellington. © 2023. 27 pages.
Technologies come and go at an alarming rate, and the length of time any one technology exists before being supplanted by a newer technology is growing even shorter. In colleges...
Leading Through Digital Andragogy: On the Cutting Edge Educationally
Linda Marie Ellington. © 2023. 16 pages.
The tsunami of technological change in higher education is causing disruption throughout academia and is exerting influence on leading in formal education. In much the same way...
Andragogical Leaders Immersing Into the Metaverse
Linda Marie Ellington. © 2023. 17 pages.
An effective and impactful andragogical leader must have many key characteristics and competencies. They must be open to immersing into the Metaverse with the spirit of optimism...
Mattering: Shaping Organizational Leadership Practices
Linda Marie Ellington. © 2023. 11 pages.
Mattering, a concept rooted in social psychology, holds significant implications for organizational leadership dynamics. This article provides an overview of exploration into the...
Character Development: The Power of Storytelling in Virtual Classrooms
Linda Marie Ellington. © 2022. 12 pages.
This chapter reviews essential features of online learning and puts forward some educational propositions that may be of service in early childhood and elementary levels. First...
Anti-Racism Movement on Campus and Educational Leadership
Linda Marie Ellington. © 2022. 17 pages.
As literature and experience tells, educational leaders impact not only their organizations but ultimately the learning outcomes of a large portion of society's members....
Critical Race Design: An Emerging Methodological Approach to Anti-Racist Design and Implementation
Meredith Kier, Deena Khalil, Linda Marie Ellington. © 2022. 24 pages.
This chapter is about introducing critical race design (CRD), a research methodology that centers race and equity at the center of educational opportunities by design. First, the...
Women Leaders in Higher Education: Where's Walda?
Linda Ellington. © 2021. 10 pages.
An interesting inquiry is whether women leaders are desiring, dismissing, or being disqualified from senior leadership positions in the global K-20 educational academy. Why is...
International Journal of Adult Education and Technology (IJAET)
Viktor Wang. Est. 2020.
The International Journal of Adult Education and Technology (IJAET) provides a global look at educational technologies for adult learners in higher education with content drawing...
Leadership: Ethical Architects in Higher Education
Linda Ellington, Victor Wang. © 2020. 17 pages.
This chapter is designed to do three things while discussing the challenges of leadership ethics in higher educational institutions. First the chapter discusses that every...
Healing: Use the Power of Your Voice Through Your Stories
Linda Marie Ellington. © 2019. 13 pages.
This chapter, per the author, is to convey the significance in facilitating healing through storytelling empowering individuals to reclaim and build sustainable lives for...
MOOCs and the Challenges They Pose to Higher Education
Viktor Wang, Linda Ellington. © 2019. 26 pages.
Technologies come and go at an alarming rate, and the length of time any one technology exists before being supplanted by a newer technology is growing even shorter. In colleges...
Higher Education Transcendence Through Transdisciplinarity
Linda Ellington, Kimberly L. Blanchette. © 2019. 15 pages.
The future of higher educational institutions is in need of innovators, creative thinkers, problem solvers, and people who can envision transcending across disciplines into a...
Cognitive Investment Into the Interaction Society
Linda Marie Ellington. © 2018. 12 pages.
There is a cascade of interest in the topic of interactive time and space. and it might may be useful to align our cognitive investment that contributes to the operational goals...
The Impact of Storytelling in Leadership
Linda Ellington. © 2018. 12 pages.
Tell the organizational story! Take the data of the organization and turn it into real people doing real things and you just might influence education. This chapter demonstrates...
Women Leaders in Higher Education: Where's Walda?
Linda Ellington. © 2018. 9 pages.
An interesting inquiry is whether women leaders are desiring, dismissing, or being disqualified from senior leadership positions in the global K-20 educational academy. Why is...
Transformative Learning and the Power of Storytelling
Linda Ellington. © 2018. 14 pages.
Stories provoke learning, promote discovery, encourage exploration, fuel re-imagination, and help in subsequent learning. Storytelling is much more than just a strategy that...
Incognito: The Neuroscience of Grief and Grieving
Linda Ellington, Valerie C. Bryan. © 2017. 20 pages.
In this chapter, we explore the neuroscience of grief and grieving. Even though the cognitive portion of the initiation into loss implores us to see a correlation between what is...
A Strategy: A 21st Century Strategic Leader Profile
Linda Ellington. © 2017. 15 pages.
A starting point in exploring the strategic leader is to examine a 21C leader who will lead organizations through complex, global, competitive and undefined organizations. It may...
Strategic Leadership: An Organic Intellect
Linda Ellington. © 2017. 14 pages.
In this chapter, I introduce my probing inquisitiveness into the connection between organic intellect and strategic leadership. I am an advocate of organic practices and...
Pedagogical Teaching or Andragogical Teaching via MOOCs?
Viktor Wang, Linda Ellington. © 2016. 24 pages.
MOOCs are a relatively recent phenomenon in the field of teaching and learning. Although MOOCS are essentially online learning and web based course materials, which have been...