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</font></span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">Further to my posts of 26 Aug and 18 Sep 2013 on this in
relation to the item of Jen Mein about ’Cultivating Change in the Academy’ I
wish to express my appreciation to Bob Stilger, Rosa Zubizarreta and others for
their thoughtful offline responses. </font></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">
</font></span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span>And to acknowledge the note of Jodi Sandford which
I found particularly uplifting:<br></span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span>Jodi Sandfort <a href="mailto:sandf002@umn.edu" target="_blank">sandf002@umn.edu</a> <a href="http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=1311182&ctx=mail" target="_blank">via</a> <a href="http://multimindsolutions.com" target="_blank">multimindsolutions.com</a> 28 Aug<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span>to Alan, Jen, AoH </span></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span>"<img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1" alt="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1">All - We are so happy to be
part of this international community to share our eBook. There is much
that A of H can and is adding to higher education at this critical time in its
development. <br>
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We hope the ebook can help others "make the case" and inspire more of
us to harvest our practice stories in public ways with each other!" <br><br>For what you said Jodi resonates strongly in
considering a tension arising from view that <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/18120-massive-open-online-courses-and-beyond-the-revolution-to-come" target="_blank">MOOC
and other online offerings</a> are ‘the way of the future’ for universities. Or is the ‘real revolution’ participation in the dance of conversation <a href="http://t.co/pSCP7MwmmC" title="http://www.artofhosting.org" target="_blank">http://www.artofhosting.org </a> by
all sectors of higher education institutions such as what is now evolving at the University of Minnesota as outlined
in </span>‘<a href="https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/hostingconversations/" target="_blank">Cultivating
Change in the Academy</a>.’<span><span> </span></span></font></span>
</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><i>A propos</i> the latter I have recently been invited by a person who had experienced
successful OST events which I had facilitated to introduce the potential value of
this approach to elicit ‘all voices being heard’ in developing a research
proposal by a university department. <br><br>‘Pre-work’ conversing is now under way. In
the course of this the university sponsor – who was not acquainted
with OST - mentioned that there were eight other sections in this university which
had indicated interest in the nature of the enterprise and had not ever yet engaged
collaboratively. </font></span><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">
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</font></span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">In the light of developments at UMN I have in mind to also
bring processes underpinning ‘Cultivating Change in the Academy’ to the attention
of this university as described so comprehensively and wholesomely in the accompanying e-book.<a href="http://e-book." target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/155523" target="_blank">http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/155523</a><br>
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</font></span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">Does anyone here have experience of taking such an
initiative? Or know of stories of this happening?<br></font></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">Looking forward
</font></span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">Go well</font></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">
</font></span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">Alan </font></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt">Alan Stewart, PhD<br>Facilitator of conversations
that matter and participatory fun <br>
<span>Based in Adelaide and operating
throughout Austral-Asia<br>
tel: </span><a href="tel:%2B618%2082127168" target="_blank"><span>+618 82127168</span></a><span><br>
mob: </span><a href="tel:%2B61%280%29413848680" target="_blank"><span>+61(0)413848680</span></a><span><br>
em: </span><a href="mailto:alan@multimindsolutions.com" target="_blank"><span>alan@multimindsolutions.com</span></a><span> and </span><a href="mailto:alanmstewart@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span>alanmstewart@gmail.com</span></a>
(personal)<br>
web: <a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com" target="_blank">www.multimindsolutions.com</a>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">(being updated now that I have recently
returned from living for 6 years in Hong Kong) <br>blog:
</span><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://conversare.net/" target="_blank"><span>http://conversare.net</span></a><span><br>
</span><a href="http://www.takeoutcomedy.com/site/comedians/alan-stewart/" target="_blank"><span></span></a><span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">See my new e-book <a href="http://amzn.to/18dxS2P" target="_blank">Time to converse - at the heart
of human warmth </a></span></span></p>
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