Dean at Marquette to become provost

Dean at Marquette to become provost Pauly to start post in July, university saysBy ERICA PEREZ
eperez@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 15, 2008

John Pauly, dean of the Marquette University College of Communication, will take the reins as provost July 21, the university announced Tuesday.

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Confusing Means and Ends

Ends are what you are trying to achieve while means are how you get there. Sometimes these get confused. For example, these are means:

Process ImprovementEducation & TrainingCompensationTechnologyQuality

So anyone pushing training (including e-learning) is selling a means to an end. First, you have to know what ends you’re trying to achieve. Ends can be 1) outcomes, 2) outputs or 3) performance. Training can help improve performance, but before you put on your instructional designer hat and get down to creating stuff, you need to align the means with the ends. That’s where performance analysis comes in.

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Learning at Work

Note: This is part of a Working/Learning blog carnival hosted at Dave’s Whiteboard

This post repeats some themes that regular readers have seen over the past few years, but I’m finding that there is still a great need for individuals to take control of their knowledge-creation and sharing and many are overwhelmed by the Web.

I have come to consider that the basic unit of learning is the individual and this person is indivisible. To be successful, all learning activities, products and strategies must be centered around the person. We can then go on to develop environments for many people, but the individual is the building block - not the learning object, the course, the programme, or the institution. All of these are temporary organisations that the individual may use, or be part of.

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