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GEORGE SIEMENS JULY 6, 2012 Open Letter to Canadian Universities Dear Canadian Universities, You are, as the cool 4chan/Reddit kids say, about to get pwned. The dramatic entrance of elite US universities into online learning will change the education landscape globally. Where we, as Canadian higher education institutions, should be leading, we are laggards. We are not without examples of what happens. | JAY CROSS JULY 6, 2012  Trust me on this The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. Henry Stimson. It all boils down to trust. Formality = control. Character is a moral judgment. | DOC SEARLS JULY 6, 2012  Checking in, 16.5 years later I fired up Searls.com in early 1995, and began publishing on it immediately. lot of that writing is at a subdomain called Reality 2.0. HE W EB. | | | | | | | | |
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BETH KANTER | FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012  Using Facebook Groups for Deeper Engagement with Audience or Your Peers
Note from Beth: Facebook Groups can be used to help build communities and for deeper engagement and learning with your audience or peers. I invited Lisa to reflect on her experience and share some advice as a blog post. The Networked Nonprofit Book Club: Anytime, Anywhere Learning – guest post by Lisa Colton. Actually none of this mattered. MORE >> -
BOB SUTTON | FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012 Dysfunctional Internal Competition at Microsoft: We've seen the enemy, and it is us!
My colleague Jeff Pfeffer and I have been writing about the dysfunctional internal competition at Microsoft for a long time, going back to the chapter in The Knowing-Doing Gap (published in 2000) on "When Internal Competition Turns Friends Into Enemies." To be clear, I am not opposed to pay for performance. MORE >> -
HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012  All connections lead to Rome
Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter , and also heard in passing at ICALT 2012 this past week in Rome. . rosariocacao – “@ adriancheok at ICALT : you don’t have time to make explicit your tacit knowledge” @britz – PKM = People, Simplicity, Discipline. Friday's Finds MORE >> -
TED | FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012  Young musicians who’ve shared a stage with their idols
When 21-year-old guitar whiz Usman Riaz was growing up in Pakistan, he often found himself entranced by videos of Preston Reed, one of the pioneers of fingerstyle guitar. As a longtime admirer of Reed’s unique rhythms and plucky sounds, Riaz calls the experience of actually sharing a stage with him at TEDGlobal 2012 “very surreal.”. Science is play. MORE >>
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