I had a really interesting comment from Allison Littlejohn in reaction to the Week 4 #change11 MOOC discussion on Collective Learning we are having this week. In her examples about collective learning in organizations or the workplace (or even academia), they all involve crowdsourcing or wisdom of crowds or greater learning by the collective than [...]
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October 6th, 2011 | Tags: #change11, critical management studies | Category: #change11 MOOC, Community of Practice (CoP), Social Responsibility | 9 comments I just came across this thought-provoking video Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms, and thought others who may have missed it may find the visualization of the TED talk engaging. It does certainly resonate with the collective learning work of Allison Littlejohn in this week’s #change11 MOOC course! October 6th, 2011 | Tags: #change11, #PhDChat, educational research | Category: #change11 MOOC, Academia, Learning & Teaching, Social Responsibility | Leave a comment I clapped when Joyce S. McKnight, the presenter, said that she was not planning to use PowerPoint. She is at Empire State College (in NY) in the Center for Distance Learning. She coordinates community and human services. She is an advocate of the Highlander Model (cf. Myles Horton). She focuses on narratives, as life is [...] May 29th, 2009 | Tags: aerc2009, Myles Horton | Category: AERC2009 (Adult Education Research Conference), Community of Practice (CoP), Social Responsibility | 2 comments Tomorrow is the day when the 8 years of the second Bush administration finally comes to an end. The torture, elimination of civil rights and privacy, unfocused war on 2 fronts, banking and economic meltdown, increasing global climatic change, systematic elimination of ecological habitats, lack of international respect and pride, increase in reliance on imported [...] January 19th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama | Category: Autoethnography & Reflective Practice, Culture, Politics, Power & Positionality, Social Responsibility | Leave a comment I attended an online book discussion within my organization recently, and there was a very interesting question the class facilitator ended the session with. He asked: If we were to write our own ideal job title, what would it be? I thought that was the grandest thought-provoking question I have encountered in some time, [...] July 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Human Resource Development, organizational development, reflective practice | Category: Autoethnography & Reflective Practice, Learning & Teaching, Power & Positionality, Social Responsibility | 2 comments I attended the 2008 Awards Reception for Wildcat Service Corporation at the Time Warner Center last night. Wildcat is a wonderful workforce development organization that has trained and prepared over 350,000 people in New York, over its 36 year history, to enter the labor force. Its Missions is “to provide comprehensive creative workforce development services [...] Beth Kantor, who blogged and Tweeted incessantly to raise awareness and donations for the America’s Giving Challenge on behalf of poverty among Cambodian children, helped to bring a win for the Global Cause Champion. I think Beth has taught a lesson here. She worked tirelessly for this cause, and in the process raised many small [...] February 21st, 2008 | Category: Social Responsibility | Leave a comment I wonder why airports, which are generally public institutions, still charge for wireless Internet access? I suppose it is still not seen as part of the public good to have such access. It is nice that British Airways at terminal 7 allows for broadband, but not a person in the terminal was using this [...] Do you think the terminology of “global warming” is not strong enough of a term to demonstrate how serious the changes in the climate? I have referred to this as global climactic change, and the NY Times is now discussing this term and whether (no pun intended) something else is more fitting a term. Take [...] February 18th, 2008 | Tags: global climactic change, global warming | Category: Social Responsibility | Leave a comment Elephant Nature Foundation, the organization in Thailand that I am very fond of (and where I have fostered 2 elephants – Max and Tong Jan) has just started using RSS feeds on their News page. I am very happy that I can now keep more on top of their news stories by having my newsreader [...] January 4th, 2008 | Tags: elephant, Elephant Nature Foundation, Elephant Nature Park, FeedDemon, Max, rss, thailand, Tong Jan | Category: Culture, Nature, Social Responsibility | Leave a comment |
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