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Hi Talya. You're right - sometimes the system and the apathy or lack of concern people show makes it impossible for students to be informed. UCT can be particularly bad at this.
Thanks for the post, as someone who was in your EBM class last year and use Vula nearly everyday, I must say I completely agree with and what you are saying but the same thing happened with me, some of the subjects simply have not enabled the chat r…
An interesting point. I think I'm going to try to raise that with some of my less engaged learners, and see what their response is. Thanks for posting.
A discussion I have each semester with new students is whether they consider themselves to be customers or not. The distinction I’m trying to get them to grapple with is that as students, they are themselves a key determinant of how good the “produc…
On the Facebook group Evidence-Based Management, Laura Guerrero asks:
In terms of the big picture, I wonder what people think in terms of why we ought to teach using EBMgt.
I hear people talk about studies and research. The way they talk about these…
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If students are customers, why don’t they do their research?
A discussion I have each semester with new students is whether they consider themselves to be customers or not. The distinction I’m trying to get them to grapple with is that as students, they are themselves a key determinant of how good the “product” ends up being. In other words, they cannot just place their orders and all expect to get the same result in terms of knowledge acquired. While there are certainly some aspects of the relationship between educators and students that are analogous to… Continue
Posted on February 14, 2009 at 8:30am — 3 Comments
Teaching EBMgt: developing better managers, or educating critical thinkers?
On the Facebook group Evidence-Based Management, Laura Guerrero asks:
In terms of the big picture, I wonder what people think in terms of why we ought to teach using EBMgt. I hear people talk about studies and research. The way they talk about these suggests to me that they do not understand what they are or how to evaluate them. For example, there is a stu… Continue
Posted on February 9, 2009 at 12:09pm —
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 11:26am on September 1, 2008,
Jon Foster-Pedley said… - Welcome Jacques, and I hope this can be brilliantly useful for you.
- At 6:51am on September 18, 2008,
Shane Smith said… - Jacques is a most interesting person to learn from, of all the similarly interesting people on this network.
Maybe if we all close our eyes, he'll share some stuff with us?
(Any stuff at all. And not necessarily related to nomadic marketing or social media)
:)
- At 7:19am on September 18, 2008,
Jacques Rousseau said…
- Thanks Shane - will start being more active once I've put a few other commitments to rest.
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Reinventing Management Conference at Midrand Conference Centre
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