Was: Intro -- Stephanie Ranta
Stephanie -
I copied you on a message to Art Chickering and Zee Gamson, as an example
of my work to forward LOs in higher education.
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Good luck with your concern that colleges and universities give some
(more) attention to learning, and becoming learning organizations. Seems
like a sensible idea to me too!
***also see notes below
Dick Webster
Richard S. Webster, Ph.D. (U of MI Center for the Study of Higher
Education, a LONG time ago) - President
Personal Resources Management Institute
709 Wesley Court - Worthington OH 43085-3558
e-mail <webster.1@osu.edu>, fax 614-433-71-88, tel 614-433-7144
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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 16:31:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephanie A Ranta <rantas@pilot.msu.edu>
Subject: Intro -- Stephanie Ranta LO19388
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>Greetings!
>My name is Stephanie Ranta and I am a graduate student at Michigan State
>University. I've been reading the list with great interest but have
>noticed that very few of the postings have directly related to higher
>education.
***Agree - few seem to see the connection.
>I'm currently researching the idea of how one can create a learning
>organization on a college campus. For example, we know that learning
>occurs outside the classroom and that students learn things that an
>administrator might not want them to learn ie) how to sneak beer into the
>dorms.
>How do we create a LO outside the classroom?
***Believe we should start where the institution's "production function"
is -- IN the classroom. Learning (course) content and teaching process
are unquestionably the instructor's responsibility. Learning content and
learning process are each student's responsibility. As I have told
everyone of my thousands of students (at Antioch, MSU, FL International,
and Ohio State - with no discernable awareness of what I had said): "Your
job is to learn, my job and the job of Teaching Associates (and everyone
else in the institution, although they don't know it and probably wouldn't
admit if if they did) is to help you learn!"
>How do we involve
>unionized secretarial staff, administrators, and in general, all the
>people who work at an institution to participate in a LO?
***Again - begin with the FEW faculty who care, run pilots using LPIA, and
roll out when the results show that this approach works -- or so goes the
design hypothesis for LPIA. Other members of the institution will get
involved when faculty show the leadership needed.
>What type of environment is most condusive to an LO?
***Good question, answers to be determined!
--"Richard S. Webster" <webster.1@osu.edu>
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