Yogesh said,
>The essence of the whole discussion [Daphne, Tammy, and myself] seems to
>be this:
>
>Regardless of 'WHAT' technology is deployed (intranets, internet,
>groupware, name-it-what), the key issue for organizational learning is:
>*HOW* it is deployed. Organizational learning is facilitated by the
>participants' 'philosophical orientations' anchored on a 'culture' that
>facilitates dialogue. Organizational culture that encourages diverse
>interpretations and surfacing of assumptions in a non-threatening context
>could serve as an enabler of OL. Given the precedence of 'hi tech hide
>bound' organizations, it is debatable if technology is the PRIMARY
>enabler of organizational learning. Technology can be an enabler if it
>facilitates these underpinning processes that motivate OL. On the other
>hand, it could be a disabler if it stiffles these processes necessary for
>OL.
Yogesh, thanks for the summary. I had taken Daphne's words to mean
technology *cannot* facilitate the dialogue that is central to learning
orgs, but see now where I was inaccurate.
I subscribe to a list called interversity:
a list devoted to discussing the present and future of education as it is
transformed by alternative (sometimes ancient) approaches and network
technologies--not necessarily the migration of institutional education to
network environments, but the possibility that institutionalization itself
may be obsolescent in a productively chaotic educational environment.
This approach seems to challenge our current views of network
technologies?
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