[LINK] Responding to the Coronavirus Emergency with e-Learning, Webinar, 29 July

[Tom Worthington]

On 22/7/20 1:38 pm, Karl Auer wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 10:02 +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> ... fist of six weekly webinars on ... e-learning ... COVID-19
> 
> The Fist of Six? Sounds like a Chinese initiative.

"Yes, Grasshopper, when you can take Zoom control from my hand, it will 
be time for you to leave." ;-)

Good to know that Linkers read things carefully. That announcement went 
through teams of educators in Australia and Canada, none of whom noticed 
my mistake.

It will be interesting to see if online learning becomes the new normal 
for university students. Yesterday I listened to a brief talk by Chirag 
Kasbekar, who researches how such changes happen:

	"In the wake of exogenous institutional change, organizational 
populations often experience a legitimacy shock. As a new institutional 
logic becomes dominant, old symbols and practices are delegitimated and 
new ones legitimated. Old symbols and practices persist into the 
postshock period, however, forming an ecology of diverse cohorts and 
audience schemas, some divergent and others convergent with the new 
institutional logic."

From: Kasbekar, C. (2020). Adaptation of New Organizations to Legitimacy 
Shocks: Postbellum Firearms Firms in the US South, 1866–1914. 
Organization Science, 31(2), 355-377. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1305


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