Notes on an article e-learning, organisation, quality
These notes may become a future article for OhmyNews. There are questions at the bottom I may find out more about during the Forum and visit to Korea. Ideas may connect based on recent visit to HESFES in Charmouth and conference on 'Rethinking Leadership' in Lancaster.
HESFES is a 'seaside festival for home education', a chance for people to meet who educate their kids at home. Friends at Psand and Bristol Wireless arranged a cybertent this year and I was able to visit. Psand have worked on web access at many events over the last three years but this was the first time so close to Exeter. The satellite and wifi is now working fine. Bristol Wireless actually had a cabled network based on Linux using quite old kit as terminals. There were workshops on open source theory and practice.
HESFES www.hesfes.co.uk/
Bristol Wireless http://www.bristolwireless.net/news/?p=191
Technical article http://flakey.info/hesfes05/
I am still thinking about this. There was a lot that could be relevant to adult education and any organisation. 'Leadership' was very distributed but must have been there in some sense. I'm not sure if HESFES would welcome the site being seen as an organisation.
The discussion around OhmyNews seems to be about media but there are related consequences in how education works as part of other activities. The Wikipedia is a source of knowledge and a learning process, especially for people who contribute.
Leadership in FE
http://www.rethinkingleadership.co.uk
I had suggested a workshop for 'Rethinking Leadership' on how organisations change with e-learning. This was not accepted but I think the issues will come up. I still think ideas about a 'learning organisation' are relevant. Quality systems can be used. I used to work on ISO 9000 and am interested in how learning happens within this. (Sometimes the learning is quite limited)
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Networked Learning for related ideas
http://www.shef.ac.uk/nlc2004/home.htm
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Some academics seem to dismiss quality ideas as restrictive of learning. There is a 'critique' that includes ideas about 'anti-performativity'. I don't understand the practice that could follow from this. The 'open source' ideas seem to have a critique of conventional computing and education but there is a clear intention that educational technology should be effective.
ISO 9000 was revised in 2000 and there is a new emphasis on Plan-Do-Study-Act as promoted by Deming. The latest ISO survey shows fewer certificates to the standard in Europe but many more in Asia. Is there something about Plan-Do-Study-Act that connects with Asian values? I did some notes on this that could be updated.
http://www.learn9.net/Something.pdf more at www.learn9.net
My guess is that Deming and Juran learnt something in Japan as well as teaching about quality. Currently there seem to be ideas about quality throughout Asia, sometimes using ISO 9000 as a base.
So I would like to know
More about quality policy in organisations including education?
What are the values that support an approach to quality?
How is e-learning introduced into education?