by Dave Bayless | community, facilitation
Our Responsibilities as Meeting Hosts and Participants Too often, business meetings suck. They don’t have to. Meeting hosts can help build trust in the process by being mindful of Purpose, People, and Process. Meeting participants, in turn, have a responsibility...
by Dave Bayless | community
Communities Are Purposeful Proximity or propinquity may be necessary to instill a sense of community, but they aren’t sufficient. Communities are purposeful. John McNight is the author of The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits. When he speaks of...
by Dave Bayless | community, facilitation
Are You Qualified to Host a Learning Community? The host of a learning community must be perceived by members as being a credible guide to a desired destination. That perception is sensitive to context. Learning Communities are Purposeful People voluntarily join...
by Dave Bayless | community, learning, video
Achieving Mastery through Learning Communities Learning communities can offer the effectiveness of classroom learning with the accessibility and timeliness of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at a reasonable cost in time and money. Achieving Mastery The purpose of...