Comments on: Distributed Learning Environments and OER: The Change Management Challenge http://mfeldstein.com/distributed-learning-environments-and-oer-the-change-management-challenge/ What We Are Learning About Online Learning...Online Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Patrick Masson http://mfeldstein.com/distributed-learning-environments-and-oer-the-change-management-challenge/#comment-1119 Patrick Masson Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:22:21 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/distributed-learning-environments-and-oer-the-change-management-challenge/#comment-1119 Jon, Thanks for the note. "Striking the right balance" is exactly what we'll be discussing, an approach--tactics, techniques and technologies-- that can bridge the gap between a vision (sense?) that so many of us are trying to get to and the reality of traditional organizations with institutional inertia pushing us down another path. Jon,

Thanks for the note. “Striking the right balance” is exactly what we’ll be discussing, an approach–tactics, techniques and technologies– that can bridge the gap between a vision (sense?) that so many of us are trying to get to and the reality of traditional organizations with institutional inertia pushing us down another path.

]]> By: Jon Mott http://mfeldstein.com/distributed-learning-environments-and-oer-the-change-management-challenge/#comment-1118 Jon Mott Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:21:53 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/distributed-learning-environments-and-oer-the-change-management-challenge/#comment-1118 I like the way you've framed the challenge of being what I am at my institution--a mid-level higher ed bureaucrat. It would be easy to go with the flow and perpetuate the status quo. But vastly more fulfilling approach is the one you advocate--think about what the future should look like, think about what it's like to be one of our institution's learners and make the world a better place for them. One of the biggest challenges I see before us is to figure out how to maintain just the right amount of uniformity and consistency in our systems / infrastructure while allowing for (and actively implementing) the kinds of new PLE functionality and applications you reference. Striking the right balance is, I believe, at the heart of providing what appears to be a natural, evolving, continuously improving "open learning network" in which changes are welcome, not jarring or off-putting. I like the way you’ve framed the challenge of being what I am at my institution–a mid-level higher ed bureaucrat. It would be easy to go with the flow and perpetuate the status quo. But vastly more fulfilling approach is the one you advocate–think about what the future should look like, think about what it’s like to be one of our institution’s learners and make the world a better place for them.

One of the biggest challenges I see before us is to figure out how to maintain just the right amount of uniformity and consistency in our systems / infrastructure while allowing for (and actively implementing) the kinds of new PLE functionality and applications you reference. Striking the right balance is, I believe, at the heart of providing what appears to be a natural, evolving, continuously improving “open learning network” in which changes are welcome, not jarring or off-putting.

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