Cross-posted from Learning Reimagined I had a briefing this morning with the education technology provider and publisher Cengage. During the discussion, I brought up a few of the things I have learned while speaking on education over the last couple of months. I want to reiterate those here because I think they are important elements of any learning model that we eventually … [Read more...] about Learning Model Attributes
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Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Pat Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Pat Freelance Planet Pat awoke to a fresh coat of snow. It was an early snow. Otter Creek flowed undisturbed, though many of the rocks Pat could see outside of his big single-paned window sported a fluffy white. The snow made him think of cotton, then snow cones. If only he had some cherry syrup. After starring out the window for about fifteen minutes, Pat’s phone finally … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Pat Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Zina Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Here is the Zina story from one of the Falling Skies teams. Zina Falling Skies This morning the link is up, which means Zina can connect to a few people in the Midwestern United States—if she’s lucky, she can bounce around the Net and find a way to connect with her relatives in Portland, but she’s not holding her breath. These days, it doesn’t pay to hold your breath about … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Zina Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Richard Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
During the E 2.0 Organization Next Workshop, I asked participants to create people who live in the various futures we explored. Over the next few days, I will be talking the answers to their questions and writing little day-in-the-life stories about some of the people who might populate these possible futures. Today I start with Richard, a reinsurance sales person who lives in … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Richard Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Being a skeptical conference presentation consumer
Conference presentations are difficult work: take a big, messy concept or idea and distill it down to fit into some arbitrary time constraint pre-determined by the conference leaders. Credibility wanes when positioning that idea and the forced-simplification that follows. If the presenter is honest he or she will admit to their constraints and briefly cover what they can't … [Read more...] about Being a skeptical conference presentation consumer