Several questions in this thread have been bothering me:
1) In most organizations, there is a purpose- a product, a service or some
activity which gives the organization a raison d'etre. And here the idea
is that if it is a LO it can do what it does better
Let us limit our discussion to post secondary institutions that are not
vocational and training schools or even two year community colleges. What
indeed is the business of higher education around which a LO can be
developed?
2) If, as has been suggested here, the university is a model of a
decentralized, chaotic, self-organizing world which is where biz is
supposed to be tending, why are we worring about how to make it an LO
rather than trying to understand it and transfering it into the biz world?
What is wrong with this picture?
3) If this were a company it would have collapsed a long time ago and yet
it looks like the industry as a whole is growing like topsy- not that some
new players are arising and others are on the way out.
Why does it endure or will it?
thoughts?
tom
abeles
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