"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Harold Jarche blogged about the knowledge sharing paradox today. He defined this paradox as one where: “….enterprise social tools can constrain what they are supposed to enhance. People will freely share their knowledge if they remain in control of it because knowledge is a very personal thing. Knowledge workers care about what they need to get work… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 28 – Class Knowledge Sharing Paradox
Harold Jarche had an thoughtful post – really a series of quotes – today – “Move the hierarchy to the rear.” Harold started with a quote from the Harvard Business Review: In an environment where everyone is a leader, some other mechanism needs to be put in place to ensure that everyone can maintain and… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 23 – Trust, Leadership and Learning
Yesterday, I talked about woodpeckers and swifts…today my inspiration is penguins. Actually, my inspiration was a blog post by Garr Reynolds last week – “There’s no shame in falling. The key is getting up!” As Garr noted: “…What inspires me most about this flightless bird is their resilience. They make the best of a… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 17 – Teaching Like Penguins
My colleague here in our Center for Teaching Excellence – Enoch Hale – intellectually pushes me all the time…and that is a good thing. Enoch has become a valued addition to co-teaching GRAD-602 with Jeff Nugent this semester. If you have listened to some of our podcasts, you have heard him. Like many of our… Read more 30 Day Question Challenge – Day 1- Complicated or Complex
I am still buzzing from all the ideas percolating from SLOAN International Conference on Online Learning, but today my buzz was from two totally unrelated (and yet totally related) blog posts from my PLN. At the conference, there were many of us who cautioned people to not fixate on the latest digital tools, because the… Read more Call Me Hammerhand
Harold Jarche had an interesting post today on “Leveraging Visualization” that included his LinkedIn Connections. His map shows lots of nodes amid his distributed connections. It got me thinking about what my map might look like, so I used LinkedIn Labs website to create my own map: What is apparent (to me) is that I… Read more A Piece of My Network
In 10 days, we start our summer institute on online teaching and learning. This is an experiment of sorts for my institution. For the first time, our institute this year will be the start of an upcoming year-long process to help a cohort of faculty develop and teach online classes. Following the institute, each member… Read more Bridging the Chasm