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Institute of Management
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If we were the MIT
OpenCourseWare discussants ... |
30/03/2006, 6:38 pm
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Dr. Wassila Naamani Mehanna wrote:
Please let me know your
thoughts. Surely you know their enterprise (  http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ). There are already
many courses available at this time ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm
), including video and audio lectures ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/avocw.htm
). However, their Achilles’ heel seems to be Discussions For Courses
area ( http://mit.ols.usu.edu/courses/ ). What would we
do if we were the MIT OpenCourseWare discussants? Also
educators, students, and self-learners interested in "Course 17.196
/ 17.195: Globalization" are invited to interact with others
utilizing the course materials in their teaching and learning
through the Discussion Group for that course ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-196Fall-2005/DiscussionGroup/index.htm
). Nonetheless, there ( http://mit.ols.usu.edu/courses/showforum?ForumID=605
) hasn't appeared any message so far. Should Prof. Suzanne Berger
send also there her reading questions ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-196Fall-2005/Readings/index.htm
)? Many of them are good stimulants to fruitful discussions.
However, are they stimulants to economic discussions only? Is there
room for discussing cultural aspects of globalization such as those
which appeared in the comment "Kono bunshou ni wa, sakusha no
kimochi ga yoku arawasarete imasu." ( http://atvn.pl/index_sub_page.php?atvn=archiwum/index&title=FORUM&icm=forum_post&post=list&ID=2004-07-05/1
) on Toshio Kobayashi's address "Internationalism and education
reform in Japan: e-learning as a possible solution for survival" (
http://real.atvn.pl/archiwum_pliki/internationalism_in_japan.ram
)? Ought therefore Prof. Suzanne Berger to mention Prof. Ian
Condry's course 21F.035 / 21F.037 Topics in Culture and
Globalization, Fall 2003 ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-035Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm
)? Will educators, students, and self-learners interested in it
click the link "Vote for New Course(s)" on the page at http://mit.ols.usu.edu/courses ? Are you
interested in joining them with the messages commenting on, for
example, Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan's 1 hour, 8 minutes Cybercast "The
Anarchist in the Library: The Moral Panics over Copyright and Free
Speech" ( http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Foreign-Languages-and-Literatures/21F-035Fall2003/Readings/index.htm
> http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/vaidhyanathan.html
> http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/video/vaidhyanathan.ram
)? Click then the link "Register" ( http://mit.ols.usu.edu/registerform )! By the way,
are you interested in commenting on Steve Krug and Lou Rosenfeld's 1
hour, 41 minutes Cybercast "Krug and Rosenfeld on loc.gov: An
Interactive Evaluation" ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/sklr.html )
within the subject "One of the most important answers is
E-RESOURCES" (  https://www.academici.com/cgi-bin/forum.fpl?op=showarticles&id=1362751
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Wassila Naamani Mehanna
Independent Consultant,
London - UK |
Re: Meta-tagging
and re-usability |
30/03/2006, 7:14 pm
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Thank you, Tad, for your input and the links
provided.
Unfortunately, the links to the MIT forums are
rstricted to members, so I was unable to comment on
that.
However, in reponse to your query in relation to Steve
Krug and Lou Rosenfeld calls for effective use of the
information.
Please find herewith my comments:
Their ideas
revolve around the usability of the information and storing it in
repositories (data banks) according to the concept of Learning
Objects (LO) for immediate retrieval as well as re-using it within
different contexts.
A learning object is an independent and
self-standing unit of learning content that is predisposed to reuse
in multiple instructional contexts.
For example, a typical
three-hour course may be composed of several dozen content objects
each of which may have several included media elements which can
generate anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 separate metadata values for a
three hour course.
The effective way to retrieve part of this
information that might be needed in another course for example
rather than re-entering it another time is to 'tag it' using the
mata-tagging standards or norms. The way this works is as follows is
by using:
- The simplest element type is a free text field.
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A second common element type has an associated vocabulary.
- A
third type of element uses an external taxonomy or classification
schema.
By doing so we separate content from context (data
bank) and we guarantee:
Accessibility: the LO should be
tagged with metadata so that it can be stored and referenced in
DB
Reusability: once, created, a LO should function in different
instructional contexts
Interoperability: the LO should be
independent of both delivery media and knowledge management
systems.
These concepts have led to a new emerging field that
revolves around designing the architecture of data-banks where Steve
Krug and Lou Rosenfeld are currently promoting their
expertise.
best wishes
Wassila
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Dr.
Tadeusz Lemańczyk
Institute of Management
Engineering |
If you had been the
MIT OpenCourseWare discussant ... |
31/03/2006, 1:19 pm
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Dr. Wassila Naamani Mehanna wrote:
Unfortunately, the links to the
MIT forums are rstricted to members,
so I was unable to comment on
that. Continuing yesterday's imaginary situation
(If we were the MIT OpenCourseWare discussants ...) I've decided to
contrast my possible situation (If I am the MIT OpenCourseWare
discussant ...) with your impossible situation and I registered
there in order to vote for Prof. Ian Condry's course 21F.035 /
21F.037 Topics in Culture and Globalization, Fall 2003 and to send
just minutes ago the message "academici and OLS Coverage of MIT OCW"
on the forum Discussing: 17.196 Globalization, Fall 2005 ( http://mit.ols.usu.edu/courses/showforum?ForumID=605
). "How can we make the online discussions effective and
why?" :-) Regards, Tad --- This article
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Wayne
Needoba
LIS / OSCM Group (Thailand) |
Re: Meanings of
the backbone first ;-) |
08/04/2006, 06:03 am
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Hi Dr. Lemanczyk,
How relevant this comment is.
Have been in discussion with N Marion Hage and Dr. Ananya Guha in
the "Anatomy of Love" group on the processes for building backbone.
Will bring their attention to this.
Regarding discussion,
Dr. Peter Senge has written a book called The Fifth Discipline, the
Art and Practise of a Learning Organization. The fifth discipline is
systems thinking.
In it he discusses how the complexities of
seeing consequences in society today, due to time and space, make it
impossible to convey ideas using language only as its linear in
presentation. The consequences of an action or thought can only be
seen through seeing circles of causality. He suggests some basic
archetypes be used for effective conveyance of ideas and
consequences therein.
I've suggested that a pilot project
for learning be set up in Mumbai, that being a land full of chaos,
to demonstrate a new vehicle for learning in business and community.
The theme of the pilot project would be to use the digital
media to provide awareness education and a commercial model that
allowed the society to grow in its competence of social
responsibility through intrinsically motivating feedback, in
relation to the issues of health, environment, safety and quality.
This would create the backbone for community growth through
discussion (interactive multimedia discussion with intrinsically
motivationg feedback in the commercial model to create an ideology
of sustainability).
Best Regards,
Wayne.
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Tadeusz Lemańczyk
Institute of Management
Engineering |
I love to e-learn
(and to e-teach too) |
09/04/2006, 10:08 am
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Wayne
Needoba
LIS / OSCM Group (Thailand) |
Re: I love to
e-learn (and to e-teach too) |
10/04/2006, 1:26 pm
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Hello Tad, The discussion thread evolved from
Ananya’s search for the Anatomy of Love. The thread is “building a
backbone” that can allow for learning, though this term has come to
me through you.. Your hyper linking skill & knowing the
relevance to the issues are certainly second to none. You keep one
scurrying around the web digging up treasures that you’ve laid. A
very effective teacher you are. Few might understand, but
you have introduced the thread (backbone) for creating a system of
learning and collaboration in the streets of Bombay, should that
society be able to realize its purpose for wanting to learn.
On the side technically, I assume you create your document
outside of Academici and then paste it in, but please share how to
do the hyperlinks. The "Bombay is India's America -- the
promised land, the city where rags-to-riches stories are written
daily" did state “For Indians of a certain age and sensibility”.
From a cultural perspective, I don’t think America is the
example of what would happen in Bombay from a pilot project
perspective. America has never seen this chaos, partly because they
didn’t integrate with a native culture, they just eliminated it
(like the British couldn't do in Zimbawe, not being critical, but as
an example of fruitless change). The British maintained what they
brought with them, so when they left, it makes me cry to finish the
sentence. Certainly Ms Condalisa Rice did manage to grow out
of one culture into another, but I don't see where she brought a
culture with her. In the culture she joined, guys like Colin Powell
cared, so likely he will be remembered more in history than the
impact that administration had building a sustainable humanity.
Bombay has "estates" of amazing beauty, wealth and culture.
Just put "Reliance Industries" in google and you can see some
awesome capabilities. However, what exists on the other side of the
wall in relation to chaos, I’ve not witnessed before and without
change, living with a backbone, Reliance will not be able to grow to
its full potential or be sustainable. My background
associates me with being "poor" from my fathers side, second
generation in Canada, from Poland / Austria. The family lived
through Saskatchewan winters in a mud huts around 1900's, but they
had inherited a sophistication for managing the land and environment
in a farming situation that was 200 years old, and way beyond
anything I experienced in Bombay at that level of society (there are
plenty of beautiful and ingenius people in Bombay, but I'm speaking
here holistically, in relation to having archetypes that maintain a
sustainable society in the current knowledge based economy thats
going global). Birth control isn't the solution. Europeans,
and later Americans gained something from the Persians and Romans
that the British could never deliver to the African and Indian
cultures. The missing link, the thread is the Anatomy of Love. The
“backbone” as you refer to it, and has little to do with the Holy
Grail. Holistically, the British learning system failed
because it didn’t understand the value and purpose of the backbone.
My experience with Canadian, Australian and American education
systems has allowed a feeling to creep into my thinking that is
motivating me to say what I'm saying. To bring sustainable
development, and change (learning), into a culture, there needs to
be, encapsulated with the skill development an anatomy of love.
That’s the thread that Ananya and Nate brought to the table.
Coincidentally, through spiritual ingenuity, Bombay was chosen for a
pilot project in e-learning based around awareness building and
using some key archetypes that allow participants in each community
to see the circles of causality (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline).
The pilot project will show the world that we are still babies in
learning how to learn (Dr. Trinidad Hunt). What more can I
say except have a look at Prof. Dr. Claus Dierksmeier's http://www.public-integration.de/index.php?templateid=news&a...
which I don't know how to hyperlink, but he did. Best
Regards, Wayne --- This article was modified on
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Tadeusz Lemańczyk
Institute of Management
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The no chaotic
Mumbai |
21/04/2006, 09:05 am
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Wayne Needoba wrote:
Just put "Reliance Industries"
in google and you can see some awesome
capabilities. I see them also with the help of other
means. My daughter ( https://www.academici.com/hp/Liliana_Lemanczyk/
), as you know, is a linguistics ( http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~ifpuam/ ) student.
For a few days, she has been a trainee reporter at EXPOVORTAL ( http://www.expovortal.com/ ). No wonder I surf
there often to check on her progress. :-) She specializes in "heavy
industry and ecology" ( http://www.expovortal.com/category.php?param_id=128
) and in "beauty and health" ( http://www.expovortal.com/category.php?param_id=45
). Her associate Sławomir Rapior who specializes in "fashion,
jewelry" wrote yesterday the news item "The jewelry offer in Mumbai"
( http://www.expovortal.com/article.php?param_id=3051
). Through the link pasted to this news item he mentions not only
INDIA INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY SHOW 2006 ( http://www.iijs.org/iijs06/default.aspx ) but also
Broadcast India 2006 ( http://www.saicom.com/broadcastindia/ ). There
Mumbai is described as "A city which moves at a frenetic pace" ( http://www.saicom.com/broadcastindia/why_mumbai.htm
).
I don’t think America is the
example of what would happen in Bombay I think that
Mumbai "frenetic [showing frenzied (full of uncontrolled excitement
and/or wild activity) activity] pace" deserves today the same song
which New York deserved in 1924 ( http://www.camden.rutgers.edu:8080/ramgen/awoll/Fascinating.rm
and http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/f/fascinatingrhythm.shtml
).
To bring sustainable
development, and change (learning), into a culture, there needs to
be, encapsulated with the skill development an anatomy of love.
The above aspect of social development worries me
too [Courting couples on Marine Drive, many of whom are college
students or those working in the nearby business district, were told
by the police that no "indecent behaviour" in public would be
tolerated. So kissing and sitting on the lap of your lover was out,
while holding hands was OK. -- Bombay morality drive under fire. By
Sanjeev Srivastava. ( http://www.mumbainet.com/magazine/morality.htm )].
;-) Regards, Tad |
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Needoba
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Re: The no chaotic
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21/04/2006, 10:42 am
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Hi Tad, There are possibilities here with
daughters. I have 4 and they live around the world carrying as many
as 3 passports. See http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1301351/ . A Vancouver
movie tech. The name would be Niedoba if she found her heritage. I
only know of her doings through google. We now have something in
common. Coincidentally, I caught an interview with Sheku
Kapur on BBC. His dream is to make a movie that stirs Mumbai to
clean up its water. Maybe Ananya could introduce our daughters to
Sheku Kapur and get this show on the road. As suggested by
Nate and Ananya, the speak would be in a paradigm defined by the
anatomy of love. The goal, building a backbone in the Mumbai
community that empowers residents to attain sustainable water and
energy capabilities. Once the empowerment process is in
place, then apply the e-learning to teach the technical and science
skills to effect the solutions that optimizes their life around
water and energy. I wonder if the girls would do it on their
own! I've suggested a man should be involved to make any initiative
whole. If looks could kill I would have passed away years ago.
However, how many real men are in the world, and if not..... wonder
why? I've been divorced twice so haven't set the right
example, my family umbrella is very leaky. Not good from the
perspective of being sustainable. However, not ready to give
up. In 1994, I introduced the concept of CD based learning to the
UNDP in Thailand. A prototype was made for training drug control
customs and police law enforcement officers in Asia using English
and Thai. By 1999, the program was facilitated as a full
blown initiative. The project funds were acquired based on the
protatype produced in Thailand. The prototype came through the
inspiration of an induction program done for drilling rigs in
Australia (Autorware / Mac in 1994). The UNDP is now
delivering customs and police training in 18 languages, all produced
in Thailand by a guy who made the prototype for 7000 dlrs. However,
the model and inspiration for the first creation was created at a
much higher cost and there were many voluntary hours spend by the
UNDP police advisor and myself. To conclude, the training (I
don't call it learning because a lesson is never learned unless
there is a behavioral change) is now deemed the most successful the
UN has ever done. They have a learning management system
monitoring progress of the officers over past 4 years. Ananya could
do a case study for creating the Mumbai's solution. Monetarily, I
had spent over US$70k progressing the concept and searching for a
founder of the prototype (UN spent US$27K). There was no
personal financial return to me but now I have the vision to create
the outcomes for a Mumbai project. There is sufficient data there to
empower Reliance Industries' Chairman to be a sponsor and mentor.
So, my worth financially is small but my capability as a
servant leader holds the possibility of being much greater.
The reason the UNDP training is much more successful than
class room seminars etc., is that the CD Rom training is delivered
in the language and culture of the student at their place and time.
There still needs to be the sharing and collaborating
internationally, but now its done around a more social and relaxed
agenda. The 700 dlrs a day teacher consultants can't compete
with the just in time, when you need it CD. As a bonus, every
interaction is tracked and competence development of each student
measured. However, there is still something missing. Its the
backbone you have brought to our attention.... The officer
can be inclined to close the eyes and let the precursor chemical or
drug pass through because a better financial offer has been put on
the table. I appreciate this wouldn't happen in Mumbai, but its
pretty common place in other parts of the world (see http://www.chron.com/news/specials/enron/).
In conclusion, there are law enforcement officers with the
greatest of skills, but somehow the bad guy can still slip away. So
its back to backbone. Does a real man have to have one for a lady to
want to be a lady. Personally, I get excited talking about
such stuff. Hope its not boring for others. Regards,
Wayne. . --- This article was modified on
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Re: The no chaotic
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Hi Tad, Came across news article "Canadian
company finds treasures, big business in other people's garbage" http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/3814349.html
Maybe not totally relevant, but when combined with movie
making, this illustrates the opportunity for self development of
sustainability in the lifestyles of communities filled with chaos.
With backbone that leads to empowerment, and a commercial
mechanism to facilitate transparent trading, miracles become
possible. Along the same line are houses from trash.
There are several companies in America who collect plastic
trash to make "planks" and "timber". These become durable housing
and liner material where heavy traffic supports are needed.
Traditionally all this comes from the forest.. These
opportunities, using the crumbs of the wealthy, combined with movie
based self sustainable learning systems, could transform the chaos
in Mumbai and lead it to being a model city for the world to follow.
However, without the backbone and empowerment, the
e-learning will be ineffective and unsustainable, as classroom
learning currently is for many. Regards,
Wayne. --- This article was modified on 24/04/2006
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eLearned by
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