I’ve been having a blast! I teach a course every winter quarter for the Business School. This year they assigned me an introductory management course for non-majors – on Friday afternoon, no less – at Ohio University! Think they are sending me a message?

Even though it has a traditional face-to-face schedule, I decided to use a technologically mediated approach and experiment with some of the stuff we have been discussing. So I have been building the course (Managing in the Innovation Age) around a blog, and using podcasts and video podcasts while maintaining an action learning architecture. (No textbooks, of course) Christopher has developed a portal for the course in the Learning Center on our Campus in Second Life. He has done some absolutely amazing work. He will share more details with you when he opens the campus to the public the first week of January. I will still have some face-to-face time with the class, but almost all of the “instruction” will occur technologically.

Building the course has been fun. Now I am anxious to see how the students respond. I’ll give you an update as the quarter progresses.

John Stinson