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- ItemOpen AccessCollaboration for the Common Good(2011-10-31) Daniel, JohnLaunch of the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT) (Partnership: UNESCO/COL Joint Work Plan), UNESCO 36th General Conference, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, Monday 31 October 2011, Collaboration for the Common Good, Sir John Daniel, President & Chief Executive Officer Commonwealth of Learning (COL) // Having served as UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education from 2001 to 2004 it is a pleasure to experience once again the excitement of a General Conference and to celebrate with you UNESCO’s achievements in integrating ICTs in Education. // Today we launch the ICT Competency Framework for Teachers. My colleagues have already put this important development in context and described to you the considerable success of the partnership that has emerged for the purpose. // The Commonwealth of Learning is delighted to be part of this enterprise. In the next few minutes I simply want to situate our involvement in the ICT Competency Framework for Teachers programme in the wider context of COL’s ongoing collaboration with UNESCO.
- ItemOpen AccessCollaborative Leadership and Irrational Exuberance(2011-02) Daniel, JohnHamdan Bin Mohammed eUniversity – Annual Congress 2011, Theme: Being at the Leading Edge – How to give the Quest for Excellence a New Meaning, Virtual Executives Club Dinner, Theme: “Collaborative Leadership”, the Recovery Act and Beyond, Collaborative Leadership and Irrational Exuberance, Sir John Daniel Commonwealth of Learning // It is a pleasure to be in Dubai and I thank you for the honour of addressing your Virtual Executives Club. Your theme is Collaborative Leadership: the Recovery Act and Beyond and I have entitled my contribution Collaborative Leadership and Irrational Exuberance. // As your first speaker this evening after the Chancellor’s gracious welcome it may be useful if I define some terms and sound some warnings. You are experienced executives and know that writing about management and leadership is full of fads and fashions – some of them signifying nothing. Collaborative leadership is a trendy term, but what is it? To those whose image is the leader as hero, it sounds like a contradiction, what we call an oxymoron, when two opposites are juxtaposed. // After exploring collective leadership I shall talk about the dangers of groupthink and irrational exuberance. You know all about groupthink and irrational exuberance in the business sector here so I shall take a different example. You are the Virtual Executives Club, so I shall recall irrational exuberance in the virtual world, the online world which is the home of our host tonight, the Hamdan bin Mohammed eUniversity. // That will lead me to reflect on strategic planning. I will suggest what makes a good plan and how collaborative leadership helps to create one. I shall use universities as my example, but what I have to say will be relevant to your own attempts at collaborative leadership.
- ItemOpen AccessWhy and How Ontario Colleges and Universities could/should Collaborate with Developing Countries in the Area of Online Learning(2011-12-15) Daniel, JohnPresentation for ContactNorth/ContactNord, Ontario, Why and How Ontario Colleges and Universities could/should Collaborate with Developing Countries in the Area of Online Learning, 15 December 2011, Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning // I strongly encourage Ontario’s postsecondary institutions for collaborate with developing countries in online learning. It may well be that Ontario has more to learn from developing countries than the other way around.