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  • Wikis, "Opt-in Culture" Contribute to a Healthy Organization on 2009-05-28
    • In an opt-in culture, employees contribute to conversations where they gain the
      most satisfaction and have the largest impact. They look beyond their tiny
      fiefdoms and seek out situations where they can add value and offer their
      expertise.
    • Have you ever left work at the end of the day and thought to yourself, “All I
      did today was respond to emails?” In email-based companies you frequently spend
      your days knocking down emails like a bad game of Whac-A-Mole.
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  • Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? - Chronicle.com on 2009-05-28

    • The president, Kim B. Clark, is a former dean of the Harvard Business School and an authority on using technology to achieve efficiencies. By 2012 the university also plans to increase its online offerings to 20 percent of all courses, with 120 online courses that students can take to enrich or accelerate degree completion.



      Colleges can also make productivity gains by using technology and re-engineering courses. For the past 10 years, the National Center for Academic Transformation, supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, has helped major universities use technology to cut instructional costs by an average of 40 percent while reducing the number of large course sections, graduate teaching assistants, and faculty time on correcting quizzes. Grades have increased, and fewer students have dropped out. Meanwhile, students have a choice of learning styles and ways to get help online from either fellow students or faculty members. That "transformation" requires a commitment to break away from the medieval guild tradition of one faculty member controlling all forms of communication, and to give serious attention to helping students think and solve problems in new formats.

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