When I started thinking about our 24-hour online conversation among learning professionals, I imagined passing the baton from the California Desk to the New Zealand Desk to the Sydney Desk and so forth. Then I realized I was trapped in a pre-internet metaphor of geography.
All we really needed was to make sure every time slot was covered.
When it’s evening here in Berkeley, people in Auckland are winding down the work day, workers in Mumbai are sipping their second morning tea, folks in Helsinki are just waking up, and in New York, only night owls are still online. What an interesting group to bring together in conversation.
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That’s all well and good for 24 hours but I would caution you about generalizing too far from that. We have done some work to extend this that may illuminate such a caution.
We ran an online course over several weeks. We had 3 tutors in the UK teaching online with 3 tutors in China. In addition each tutor worked with different groups each made up of participants from both countries.
Believe me it’s about a lot more than just time management in groups. Certainly the time issue is important but so too is culture. Inter-cultural informal learning in global settings over time might help to broaden the framework perhaps? We have a chapter in press on this but we are only at the start of this issue. Thank you for creating this space to discuss it.