SESSION 4 Part 1.  LINKED ASSIGNMENT.  Written Assignment:  Select one or two of the controversial points made by Esther Dyson and write a brief statement on why you agree or disagree with her point.  Be prepare to discuss your position in class.  Before class, post your statement to the Discussion Board under the Dyson forum.  Create a new thread  for each new main point.  If the point you wish to comment on has already been introduced, your comments should be added as a  to it.  You are also encouraged to reply to the comments of others.

SESSION 4 LINKED ASSIGNMENT.  Part 2. Written Assignment. Not more than the equivalent of about one page on the extent to which the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies could be considered a Learning Organization and what would need to change to make it more of a Learning Organization. One or two paragraphs on specific ways technology might be used and the case for and against the use of technology.    Post your initial assignment as a .  Post comments on the arguments of others or as a  on the Discussion Board forum Learning Organizations

Esther Dyson, Release 2.1
Required Reading:  Esther Dyson, Release 2.1 (1998).  Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1-5, and 11
Read what others have written about this book (and the earlier edition) at Amazon.com

Class Activity: discussion of Dyson.

Peter Senge, Learning Organizations -

Required Reading: Senge, Peter (1990), The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

Interview with Peter Senge on Organizational Learning [http://www.orglearn.nl/Archives/InterviewPSenge.html]

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, OVERVIEW [http://home.nycap.rr.com/klarsen/learnorg/senge.html]

Steve Bennett (1998) Learning, Change and Organisations

[http://www.euro.net/innovation/Management_Base/Man_Guide_Rel_1.0B1/LCOrg.html]

James F. Courtney, David T. Croasdell, and David B. Paradice, Inquiring Organizations
Explores the relationship between inquiry and learning in organizations and how information technology can be used to support  the process of knowledge creation in the context of inquiring systems. [http://www.cba.uh.edu/~parks/fis/inqorg.htm]

Mike Marquardt and Greg Kearsley, Technology and Learning in the Workplace
Maximizing Human Performance and Corporate Success [http://www.gwu.edu/~lto/tlo-toc.html]

Yogesh Malhotra (1996)

Brief introduction, identification of key references, and paragraph on the role of technology. Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations: An Overview [http://www.brint.com/papers/orglrng.htm]

Yogesh Malhotra (1993) Role of Information Technology in Managing Organizational Change and Organizational Interdependence [http://www.brint.com/papers/change/]

The Society for Organizational Learning
[http://www.sol-ne.org/]
Useful Links on Organizational Learning
[http://www.orglearn.nl/Archives/Links.html]
Learning Organization [http://www.newgrange.com/dfoffice/learning_organization.htm]

Class Activity: Discussion of Singe and Learning Organizations. Discussion of the relevance or lack of relevance of technology to learning organizations. Small Group activity: Analysis of the Doctoral Program in Leadership Stuides and consideration of the the relevance of technology.

Short hands-on activitiesSearching for Information
Resource Person, Rayette Wilder
CARTIA Mapping the information landscape [http://cartia.com/]
Social and Economic Implications of Information Technologies: A Bibliographic Database Pilot Project [http://srsweb.nsf.gov/it_site/index.htm] Over 4,000 citations of data sets, research papers, books, and web sites about the social and economic implications of information, communications, and computational technologies (IT) organized in searchable listings called Road Maps
Genamics.com [http://genamics.com/] JournalSeek contains web links, ISSNs, and availability of abstracts and/or full-text online for over 8,500 journals. Other databases include SoftwareSeek, a collection of over 1,000 free and commercial software and online tools for molecular biology and biochemistry