The Chronicle of Higher Education (the Chronicle does not provide a permalink to the full article to non-subscribers, so sorry for the abbreviated link) reports that Antioch College, the undergraduate portion of the larger Antioch University, will close next year as the Board rethinks and plans for a new state-of-the-art campus to open in 2012.

While any institution that has been around for 154 years and has contributed their share of progressive policies to higher education and society (Horace Mann was the first president, and graduates include Coretta Scott King, Stephen Jay Gould, Rod Serling, Robert Krinsky (my former Chairman at The Segal Company), Clifford Geertz, Mary Belenky, and Warren Bennis) will be missed, perhaps this strategic rethinking of their work will ultimately increase their value and contribution. 

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This is a slightly edited slideshowRobin and I presented last week at AERC. I liveblogged the conference when I was not presenting this. Next steps–further develop it for another round of resaerch!

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I just learned that Richard Rorty, the philosopher, died last Friday while I was presenting at AERC 2007. HIs obituary is here and an informative piece about him can be found here. For a contemporary philosopher with continental and pragmatic leanings, he will be missed.

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I isolated the data I collected from the AERC2007 conference by giving all entries a similar category–Liveblogging AERC2007. Click the link, and you will be brought to all the entries done in real time while at the conference. Another way of accessing the same information is to select the "Liveblogging AERC2007" category listed under "Categories."

As the purpose of this research was to type and post my direct experiences while attending paper presentations and other parts of the academic conference, the notes and thoughts are unedited and seemingly arranged in a flow-of-consciousness. I hope to bring meaning to this through the research project itself.

Now that this can be more readily found, off to begin preparing for the data analysis.

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I thought I did this a long time ago. Perhaps this is why I never seem to get indexed on Technorati?

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I uploaded my photos from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax to Flickr. I need to rename and tag them, but thought it will be nice to see them sooner rather than later. Of particular interest are the photos from their Titanic Exhibit and those from their Pirates exhibit.

For a small museum in a very pretty location in downtown Halifax, it was a gem to see.

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Now back in New York, I again have Internet access and just uploaded the liveblogging entries I wrote while at AERC 2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I now have some work to do with interpreting what is there, and expect to write and work extensively on them over the next two weeks. The liveblogging entries remain unedited, exactly as I wrote them while attending the conference.

I will need to consider a way to identify them on my blog as research data, rather than just other posts. This is my next step.

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Robin Grenier

Theoretical FOundations for adult learning. Is often anecdotal, and not with a theoretical base

idea for a roudtable is to have a discussion of what people see as possibilities

Create a triad — share with them an experience we have had as an adult at a museum or national park. Speak about this as a learning experience, what may have been learned

now, put on an adult facilitator / educator hat, and discuss what we have heard based on adult learning theiry, and how can you explain them from the adult ed persepctive

we then discussed this in triads

Robin then wrote some of these themes on the board, and then asked us how we could translate those into adult ed speak / lingo

Learning in Museums themese Robin heard from our groups

1. trnasformative
2. social-constructivism
3. spirituality
4. meaning making
5. perspectives
6. analogies
7. experiential learning
8. knowledge creation
9. tactile learning
10. emotionally laden
11. reflexive
12. critical consumption — who is controlling the learning and the context

then she asked us to discuss this

she has found her place in Canada

having a home place, where we can go back to again and again

emotionally-laden experiences

i began this project without knowing the methodoloy, as I had a limited area and time for data. Not sure what will learn from this, but that will be determined.

While working in our small groups / triads, I did not write here, as I thought that would not be conducive to a conversation we are having. Thus, I am blogging while I am a particpant who is not actively engaged in dialogue.

a participant in the room – knowledge in museums has been consturtced from / in various frameworks , and we have to be aware of that framework and how it was constructed.

Another person became a reflexive visitor

some museums are bevoin more critical, having multiple avenues of experiences and lenses

as a critical educator, can i take a crtitical lens to whatever museum / experience

I also need to find a better way to code the tags for these blogs. Futue resaerch elemtns

if we know we can have a converswation about this and what museums can do and their purpose, the next question is why don’t we.

somebody mentioned she is passionate about the British Museum, it is busier than ever especially since they removed the price.

It seems there is lifelong learning that is more established in Europe.

The question, is why aren’t we studying this any longer

one person specuulated that with the advent of technology, is it removing the social element of going to the museum

i am feeling like a researcher during this conversaiton

are museums still high-brow? They seem to have changed,  but if we are interested in seeing how an emotional and transformational experiences (eg in a Holocaust Museum). There are missed opportunites for authentic learning within museums. So, why are we missing out on this learning.

what can we do with a colleague or our own research agenda–how can i engage in scholarship to look at adult capacity to learn. We have a responsibility with adult educators to partner with musems. The museum educators have content expertise, but that does not necessarily meet the needs of adult visitors. How can we help adult visitors of multiple persoectvives and bring them in and help them to

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Jeffrey Keefer & Robin Yap

I cannot livebog my own conference, so I will discuss it before I present and then recap what I learn during and after it.

This is really a delayed liveblog, as the Internet access is still not present in the building.

At the end in discussing the reesults, Julie Storburg-Walker suggested looking at the new learning work from learning at a conference. She suggested speaking with Colleen Weissner

we had abut 12 people, and there were a few pictures

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