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		<title>Patient care as a performance system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent interview with Dr. Peter J. Pronovost dealt with safer ways to care for patients in hospitals.  Pronovost is the medical director for the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
The interview&#8217;s worth reading on its own merits.  I saw in it good examples of performance analysis and efforts to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/3266</link>
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		<title>Closed classroom: more than one meaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s Washington Post has an article about college professors banning laptops from their classrooms.  (The first example is from a Georgetown Law lecture on &#8220;democracy and coercion.&#8221;)
Similar bans, the article claims, exist at William and Mary, the University of Virginia, and other big-name schools.
It&#8217;s been years for me since college, so my own notions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/3257</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the performance, or, what every manager should know about Bob Mager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I found myself in a couple of discussions about the difference between training and learning.  I only took one philosophy course in college, and later on I hollowed out the textbook to hide a gag gift, so it&#8217;s clear I&#8217;m not that contemplative on this issue.
To oversimplify, many people in more traditional training [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/3248</link>
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		<title>Above-average learning: Head First Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you&#8217;re right.  Head First Statistics is really a form of teaching, not learning.  As with any book, you could see it as an extended lecture (660 pages, if you count the appendices).  No way to ask anything, easy to slide past questions or problems by turning the page.
Which is why HFS makes such a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/3226</link>
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		<title>Learning as &#8220;fun,&#8221; or, every man in his humour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other week, a #lrnchat discussion explored large training efforts.  Eventually the topic turned to fun.  In real life, when organization trainers start talking about fun and learning, I start looking for the exit.  I figure it&#8217;s not long before the Happy Gang shows up, determined to make you laugh no matter what, and I [...]]]></description>
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