# Introduction

This course will help you to think about your professional educational situation and the nature of leadership within it. It will provide you with a better understanding of models of leadership and the challenges and opportunities to lead in an inclusive way. This course will enable you to reflect upon how you and others can support diverse teams within diverse learning contexts, with particular reference to collaborative and distributed practices. You will explore the issues through research from around the world, so that you reflect on personal and institutional responses to enacting leadership that support the involvement of all.

If you haven’t already, you might want to consider exploring the related OpenLearn courses after completing this course:

- Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
- Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
- Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

You might also be interested in the Open University Inclusive Practice Leadership and Management Masters pathways.

OpenLearn - Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
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