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Draws an interesting analogy between Open Source and MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative. Also draws attention to the continued role of good teaching in making content valuable (anybody can go buy the text book, but how many can learn from it without a good teacher handy?)

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Quote: "Most companies' learning systems are bankrupt. The way managers attempt to help their people acquire skills and knowledge has absolutely nothing to do with the way people actually learn. Many trainers rely on lectures and tests, memorization and manuals. All too often, they train people just like the schools teach students: Both rely on "telling." No one remembers much that's taught by telling, and what's told doesn't translate into usable skills." (via elearningpost)

Comment: Roger C. Schank introduces his new book "Designing World-Class E-Learning...

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Working with Roger can be a total PITA, but a worthwhile PITA. Reading his stuff isn't half as exciting as interacting with him face-to-face, but it's miles beyond anything anyone else is saying or doing in this area. There are a number of places working to implement his ideas with varying degrees of success and agressiveness.

Long term, I suspect that Roger does indeed have the right answer. But getting there might be a bit easier if you combine his thinking with Tim Gallwey's work on Inner Game thinking.

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I wonder if we're not getting the cart in front of the horse by so quickly shifting attention to all the putative organnizational benefits of k-logs, before we've got them seeded into organizations to begin with?

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