Le lineaire est mort avec l'internet!
Voyez certains outils de soi-disant "e-learning" (je ne nommerai personne, mais franchement...) qui ne sont que des bases de données antédiluviennes reproduisant un linéaire artificiel totalement anti-pédagogique
1ère étape: WebCT
Comme disatima grand-mêre: c'est l'intention qui compte. On peut en effet améliorer sa productivité et mettre rapidement à disposition des étudiants des infos supplémentaires. Mias aucune possibilité pour les étudiants de devenir plus pro-actif et partager des ressources.
2ème étape: WSS
Des forums, des listes de liens, des documents, finalement on retrouve les mêmes fonctionnalités qu'avec un Yahoo group. Pas plus! Pas de synchronisation avec les notes et les travaux. Pas de copier-coller, pas de vrai travail collaboratif comme avec GoogleWrite.
3ème étape: Moodle.
Yeah, baby yeah!
Enfin on parle sérieusement. Est-ce que vous avez vu ça?!? Pas étonnant que ce soit déjà le choix de Concordia et UQAM. J'ai l'impression d'avoir 15 ans et de reluquer un beau scooter italien rouge et chromé... Envie quand tu nous tiens...
lundi 15 janvier 2007
What in the world do you need that for?
Cynics of the world unite and rise to the occasion:
Wall Street is getting concerned over CEOs compensation.
Puhlease!
Take a look at Home Depot's maverick 250 millions USD for the latest CEO on the loose. What on earth is the need to make THAT kind of money. Now that a look at Bill Gates, all his billions helped him put together a great foundation... that invests in highly questionable industries.
Read the latest issue of Commerce (excellent french business magazine). The "PDG masqué" calls into question public companies executive compensation. Indeed, here's an interesting concept in hypocrisy.
What do you think?
Wall Street is getting concerned over CEOs compensation.
Puhlease!
Take a look at Home Depot's maverick 250 millions USD for the latest CEO on the loose. What on earth is the need to make THAT kind of money. Now that a look at Bill Gates, all his billions helped him put together a great foundation... that invests in highly questionable industries.
Read the latest issue of Commerce (excellent french business magazine). The "PDG masqué" calls into question public companies executive compensation. Indeed, here's an interesting concept in hypocrisy.
What do you think?
By biases, we mean…?
Most of my colleagues come from management. They got an MBA. Some come from more exotic fields. It is common belief that where you got your undergraduate degree influences what kind of researcher you become. Consider this: Igor Ansoff wrote a thesis on the “Dynamics of Rigid Bodies.” Hmmmmm.
I come from communication but, strangely enough, I don’t believe that everything can ultimately be solved with “good” communication. I don’t even consider that one of my “biases.” I have seen very little solved by “communication.” However, the field of organizational communication is unbelievably rich in powerful theories.
I also come from corporate America, through several detours from corporate consulting to European SMEs. In my book, the aim of management research is finding answers to managers’ problems. Ways to go about this range from theory building (middle-range being certainly more useful than grand universal ones) to empirical testing and re-testing of existing theories.
Unfortunately, our field seems to value theory building over anything else. Some would say we value the creation of grand theories just for the sake of it. Maybe it is to be expected from a field impaired by a chronic inferiority complex: Management is “just” an applied science. Sigh. If only it could be taken as seriously as Economics… Sigh again. Have you heard of hte Nobel Prize in mangement? Didn't think so.
I guess the worse bias for me is that: research is for finding practical solutions and that rarely goes through theory building. However, when I present research results based on empirical testing of an existing theory (Have I told you about Taylor’s metaconversation model?), my dear colleagues smile condescendingly and say: “tsk tsk tsk, this is all nice but why didn’t you build your own theory?”
Disheartening, I tell you.
I come from communication but, strangely enough, I don’t believe that everything can ultimately be solved with “good” communication. I don’t even consider that one of my “biases.” I have seen very little solved by “communication.” However, the field of organizational communication is unbelievably rich in powerful theories.
I also come from corporate America, through several detours from corporate consulting to European SMEs. In my book, the aim of management research is finding answers to managers’ problems. Ways to go about this range from theory building (middle-range being certainly more useful than grand universal ones) to empirical testing and re-testing of existing theories.
Unfortunately, our field seems to value theory building over anything else. Some would say we value the creation of grand theories just for the sake of it. Maybe it is to be expected from a field impaired by a chronic inferiority complex: Management is “just” an applied science. Sigh. If only it could be taken as seriously as Economics… Sigh again. Have you heard of hte Nobel Prize in mangement? Didn't think so.
I guess the worse bias for me is that: research is for finding practical solutions and that rarely goes through theory building. However, when I present research results based on empirical testing of an existing theory (Have I told you about Taylor’s metaconversation model?), my dear colleagues smile condescendingly and say: “tsk tsk tsk, this is all nice but why didn’t you build your own theory?”
Disheartening, I tell you.
It's snowing
It's mid-january and winter seems to be here. About time!
I feel like celebrating with the creation of this blog.
If I put as much effort into it as I did the many teenagers diaries I started, then the blogoshere will not suffer from my presence for long.
Stay tuned.
I feel like celebrating with the creation of this blog.
If I put as much effort into it as I did the many teenagers diaries I started, then the blogoshere will not suffer from my presence for long.
Stay tuned.
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