A colleague’s question about the need for ecommunity caused me to react thusly:
The success factor going forward will be new ideas: to innovate, design, problem-solve, and learn from mistakes in ways that are more effective and actionable. It will also require efficiency in execution, but the advantages will be to the knowledge creators. It’s about experimenting more effectively: creating new understandings, testing them, refining them, and documenting the outcomes for others to avoid replication.
First and foremost it’s about smart sharing, both in who and how. Tools for sharing are critical.
Secondarily, it’s about developing learners who can play like this. You need to make the tools natural extensions. It takes a culture.
It’s about creating an environment for knowledge worker success, and that’s scaffolding both the resources we develop and provide, and access to the resources of others. It’s about the development of novices, support of practitioners, and collaboration of experts negotiating new understandings.
United we learn or divided we fail.
Thoughts? My own reaction is to be smart in sharing: who, how, and what.
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