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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 09, 2017
Why Your Employees and Colleagues Might Be Your Most
Important Customers
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I used to warn people that unless we in public institutions
didn't get our online learning act together, companies like
Disney would move in and do our job for us. This
advertising content (advertorial) from Disney in HBR s a
case in point. "at Disney Institute," says the text, "we
believe an organization must cultivate internal customer
service with the same intentionality as it cultivates
external customer service. Providing great customer
experiences is not a single department’s
responsibility; it’s everyone’s." It's
learning, but it's also a certain perspective on work and
learning.
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Social Media Production – Reflexive Learning
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Rob Watson: "We still seem to be dominated by
‘instruction’ as the main form of learning
practice, especially when it comes to learning how to use
media technologies and applications. This limits the focus
of learning, in my experience to a
‘transactional’ approach... we might be
serving the learners better if we can offer them
opportunities to discover something about themselves in the
process of learning." Yes.
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Who’s speaking at TED2017? Announcing our speaker lineup
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Someone said to me today that TED would be a good platform
for me. This led to a conversation about how TED is careful
not to offend rich people (and indeed, to make them feel
good about themselves). Why is why TED will never feature,
say, the organizers of Occupy Wall Street. Or me. Case in
point, this year's TED. The source of the "ideas worth
spreading": "the co-creator of Siri, the founder of the
world’s largest hedge fund, a Nobel-winning
researcher who helped discover how we age, the head of the
World Bank, and one of the greatest athletes of all time."
Yeah, let's keep telling people they deserve their wealth
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Arab Universities and MOOCs: Cautious Cooperation
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Dood article providing an overview of the two major
Arabic-language MOOC platforms, Edraak
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"In the Arab world, as universities struggle to reach
thousands of students with few qualified professors, many
educators feel that MOOCs still have potential. But the
number of available courses is relatively small."
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How Maker Mindsets Can Be An Easy Fit For Rural Schools
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Some of you may recall my photo set from the Metcalfe
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last October. What struck me at the time was the
participation of young people in the events. In a rural
community like Metcalfe, to 'make' is to raise a calf, grow
a crop, or restore an antique. As this story says, "Rural
districts might already be offering a maker program and not
realize it. Organizations such as 4-H and Future Farmers of
America teach agricultural education skills that
involve a lot of 'making.' Students might be designing,
programming and learning about technology under the
auspices of such a curriculum." I grew up in Metcalfe, and
maybe this is why I don't see 'making' as a new thing.
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