Universities versus Learning Organisations LO27999

From: AM de Lange (amdelange@postino.up.ac.za)
Date: 03/18/02


Replying to LO27987 --

Dear Organlearners

Portal KMOL (Ana Neves) <editorg@kmol.online.pt> writes

>Some time ago I started working on the differences
>between Universities and Learning Organisations.
>I started with a list of those differences and then
>began working on each of those differences.
>
>It isn't an in-depth work (that wasn't my intention)
>but I thought it might be useful for some. Besides, I
>would love to hear your opinion.

Greetings Ana,

I think you are very brave because universities do not like to be
criticised in very basic and general thing which they have (ought ;-) to
do.

By now the management teams of most universities ought to have heard
something about a Learning Organisation. I wonder how many teams have
actually started in transforming their university into a LO?

I usually try to avoid shock tactics, but in this case I think that shock
tactics are needed because it involves people who should have known much
better.

Here in South Africa a few departments have started to become a LO, but
not one whole university. I also think that this is the best way to do it
-- begin with a department in which its members want to do it
spontaneously.

Do you intend to complete the study? By the way, some of the categories
are (still?) in Portugese which I tried to understand with my little Latin
and Spanish, but failed in.

With care and best wishes

-- 

At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa

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