Learning Organisation Returns as Video

More on this in 2019, this post just a note to keep the links.

I have been following the Digital Marketing University since the Like Minds event in Exeter. Various names seem to connect, including Digital Success, an event in India.

Recently found a webinar and the video has been posted on YouTube.

The Learning Organisation has not had as much interest in the UK since about fifteen years ago or so. Book sales continue but not so much research in universities. ( My impression, contrary links welcome). At the first conference on Management Theory at Work John Burgoyne asked what technology would make possible. Answers now starting to appear, or maybe the connection is just more obvious. The conference aimed to mix theory and practice so it is interesting this video comes from a working manager.

Notice the MOOC is included as part of a mix. Possibly just used for parts of topics that fit a particular project. My guess is this is quite normal, stats on completion rates may not be based on how a MOOC is actually used.

Towards the end there is a question from me on how learning could result in policy changes or at a system level. I think this aspect could be expanded. More during 2019.

Also found, a video on content marketing through video. Interesting example of how to record a presentation. Can compare with campus venues. In UK at BETT and Learning Technologies over next coupe of months several options on video and sound for education and training.

Next Digital Success event August 2019 in Kolkata.

Post Digital Print

The print version of Digital Printer has arrived for December. Includes a report on the case for print, based on problems for digital. Meanwhile I have heard about "post digital" as an academic term. People using it seem to accept that digital has arrived so continue alongside, not offering resistance as such. I may have got this wrong, will study early next year.

It could be time for something similar to happen with the print industry take on digital. The "Power of Print" conference could concentrate on where print can work with a digital approach. For Digital Printer magazine this could include short run personalisation.

More on this next year, "post digital print" may be the wrong words, should settle over the Winterlude.

Journalism without hard news

Still wondering about how to get a news headline as in an event. When I wrote for OhmyNews we were told to follow "AP Style" - some sort of clear event in the first paragraph.

I used to store comment stuff in a blog and resubmit with another event every so often. Sometimes was accepted. Things often move very slowly.

Today in print Guardian Emily Bell mentions "the rise of the reader", headline in print but a bit lost online. She reports that The Correspondent has now got funding and will launch in 2019. I checked the site and so far you can only join by sending money, no way to submit story ideas.

Jay Rosen writes in a related post

From the moment it "jumped" to the internet, journalism has been trying to figure out how to become more two-way. The Correspondent has the best answer I have seen. Its writers are given freedom to define their own beats, and pick their own reporting projects. But in exchange for that extraordinary latitude they are expected to spend 30 to 40 percent of their time interacting with members and drawing knowledge from them.

Thing is, this is not citizen journalism as I remember it. OhmyNews continues in Korea but I have no recent info. So assume model still the same. the readers contribute, the staff has more editors than a normal news room. Readers get a variety of views. So I will wait a bit to see how this works out.

Meanwhile no mention of Guardian Unlimited Talk, the social network trashed overnight by the Guardian some time ago and now never mentioned. See previous posts.

What happened to Jeff Jarvis by the way? Still a blog but we need the careful edits that print allows. Surely the Guardian can find some space?

So my "story" looks like a search for projections inside USA on student numbers in future, online and on campus. My guess is that at the moment nothing exists. Because the question is not asked. There will come a time when some sort of trend is more obvious.

Speculation based on UK. It will be claimed that for the best established sites demand will continue. Only the marginal will be replaced by online. But what if the online tech is itself of interest as study and for jobs? It may be claimed online will only change scene for business and tech, but is there arts / philosophy associated?

Meanwhile more local to Devon and Exeter, Seale Hayne is up for sale again. Used to be a campus for Plymouth Uni, before that an agricultural college. Great location, I cannot believe the cafe will be closed for long. something will happen there, could be a model for future sites no longer needed as intended when built. Exeter student accommodation still building at full stretch. Makes no sense at all to me but there it is.

Carl Munson is working on OurNet, based in Portugal. Seems to be based on a sort of tech park on campus. I have nothing against such places, just think they need to be balanced with online resource. Previously radio formats suggest not too much force on definite facts. Leave it to the guests to make clear statements. Not sure how this works in any format that follows online.

Meanwhile I will look for links and try to string them together. USA probably the first scope. In UK still not much interest in Futurelearn so nothing follows.

More on student numbers, non predictions

Continuing to think what numbers exist as basis for investment in student accommodation. Cannot find any predictions for Exeter or comparison with online. So tried USA, found this but still no take on what proportion will move online. There could be a mix some sort of blended situation. But I do not think the campus will continue as is.

Anyway, for a story next Feb at Learning Technologies it seems unlikely any reliable numbers will be available. Better to concentrate on EdTech success as in valuation based on income. There will be some, number larger than three. Coursera seems ok. LinkedIn has more learning attached over time. O'Reilly has moved beyond books, some video and chat facility.

Coventry University will be at Learning Technologies, not sure what they will show, maybe Futurlearn connection.

Pinned Tweet Dec 2018

My Twitter profile may be confusing as mostly I relate to learning tech and music, then also rave about Brexit and Corbyn. Music also on @wenotno, radio show. Recently things may come together but you may choose to reject the politics or the take on social media or both. May follow in tweets but the idea is that politics is different for most online compared to print in UK. Also newspaper readers tend to be older like myself. I happen to support Corbyn and oppose Brexit and Trump. See post for more on how some USA newspapers / CNN also oppose Trump but for the UK there seems to be a bigger gap between Brexit newspapers and most views on social media. Recent lecture by Corbyn convinces me this will develop over time, next couple of years. Newspapers so far seem to just ignore what he has to say. ( see readG blog for some detail on Guardian) He started on age profile of BBC audience, this could get moreso. Various forms of co-operative social media are possible, can relate back to Corbyn lecture. I notice only Business Insider asked a question relevant to the occasion. My blog on Fleet Street in Europe and Cyberspace may deal with other aspects of newspapers in context of broadcast, also declining circulation. Some of my retweets and messages are for @wenotno music show so go there if music is main interest.


updated from August.

Learning , ahead of BETT / Learning Technologies

Repeating some things, draft also, more in new year.

Recent chat with JD for a radio version and new diagram. We have been talking about "Design Science" but this word seems much less used recently. Maybe "Design thinking" though I am showing it with "Communication" and "Learning".

Design Science seems to have been one version of how academics come to terms with practice. Talk of Mode 1 and Mode 2 Knowledge now harder to find. Maybe there is so much funded research in the tech giants. They do their own business theory as they go along.

Not exactly learning theory but my main concern is how to present online learning as viable. There have been claims at Course Central, see previous posts, but here is another from CNBC. Coursera as a viable project. So I think this will be the lead story for Learning Technologies. Also LinkedIn Learning and O'Reilley. I am not sure how Futurelearn will compare. The support in UK is very limited compared to how USA regard things. Just my tweet scans which may be partial in some way but I think UK academics still content that OU got rid of Peter Horrocks. Back to normal, some might say. There is still some investment in Futurelearn but not on scale to compare with USA base. Music history shows this can turn out to matter.

Guardian reporting on MOOC and related issues still very limited. Peter Scott presumably still info Mode 1 though rarely mentioned. The impact of an online move in education not included in reports on financial problems.

Examples one two

Marketisation has also become a threat to the gold standard represented by UK degrees. The more the “top universities” preen themselves as a premier league, consigning the rest to the depths, the more “alternative” providers, with unchecked standards, crowd into the market, the more the question will be asked: whatever happened to the trusted UK academic brand? 

These Brexit reflections provoke some frightening thoughts. Have we reached “peak” UK higher education? Will we be as highly regarded? Will we deserve to be?

and this from Jonathan Wolff

But the signs of market meltdown are everywhere: over-borrowing by some universities (too many cranes on campus), dangerous deficits even with a £9,000 fee, dumbing down of “good” degrees, an explosion of unconditional offers.

Student accommodation is often off the uni balance sheet, and the cranes are often off campus. But just to reveal the bias in this blog it is the new blocks in the city that raise the questions most often. Radio chat will continue in Exeter, maybe not on same topics as in this blog. Variety of forms for conversations that overlap. Will UK allow continuing competition as in strong brands recruiting larger numbers? Where will the damage be? Can the winners cope with the physical space demands? How long is the student accommodation supposed to last? If 20 -30 years there must be a scenario plan somewhere about blended mix of online and campus.

I cannot find anything like this. In Exeter the investment seems to be based on trends over previous five years or so.

Meanwhile there is more mention of "post digital" . As in Wikipedia-

Postdigital, in artistic practice, is an attitude that is more concerned with being human, than with being digital. Postdigital is concerned with our rapidly changed and changing relationships with digital technologies and art forms.

Seems to assume digital has already happened. So not sure how to relate to previous words. Anyway as radio JD tells me not to assume too much. Guests could make their own version of events. This blog could be the basis for news reporting so would need an event of some sort. Expect something at BETT / LT , both at ExCEL .

Links back to ISO 9000 papers, video possible?

Next week there is a London meeting about Deming and ISO 9000 . Fully booked so no promotion. But it should result in meetings for next year. So I have looked out links to previous papers when I was trying to relate quality and the ideas around a learning company. I think next week will be mostly process control, but the ideas below could come up later.

Two papers from Management Theory at Work in Practice, conferences at Lancaster. First asking if ISO 9000 was worth another look. The revisions are often intended to make the standards easier to learn from. Paper needs an update as standard changed again. Second one on values and Dr Deming, more into background as discussed around the first one. Later there were two for the Institute of Advanced Studies with two projects. For the Knowledge Economy I suggested that adding a quality aspect made a better case for the Learning Organisation. For Experimentality I did some diagrams on versions of the Deming cycle.

When I wrote these I was thinking mostly about printing. Now I work on radio and video. So I will try to record the meeting next week. Probably need to repeat some bits / use other sources. There is now so much video online that it is often best to link to somewhere else. So probaly I will do a search and also look for links.

Question continues, what is a studio? Most venues will have some way of recording. Social media is ever more likely to include sound and vision. More posts later on how this works out.

https://www.scribd.com/document/2187351/Management-values-and-Dr-Deming

https://www.scribd.com/doc/98106245/Plan-Do-Check-Study-Act-with-Diagrams

https://www.scribd.com/document/2187340/Is-ISO-9000-worth-another-look

https://www.scribd.com/document/2187162/Learning-Organisations-Now-with-Quality-Assurance