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What’s the Best Book You Ever Read for School?

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What’s the Best Book You Ever Read for School?

Those of us who are readers often owe a lot to our teachers. To mark the end of Teacher Appreciation Week, we thought we’d take a moment to reflect on the most influential books we picked up thanks to a teacher who slipped a book into our hands, assigned a particular novel or reached out with a thoughtful recommendation.

We asked several writers about the books or stories that left a lasting impression. Maria Semple, the best-selling author of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” chose “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Through ninth grade, I read books mainly for fear of getting busted if I didn’t,” she said. “That changed when David Webb at Choate Rosemary Hall assigned ‘The Great Gatsby.’ I vividly remember the day Mr. Webb pressed us to divine deeper meaning from the green light at the end of the dock, the names West Egg and East Egg, the faceless eyes on the billboard, and my quickening glee in discovering that a novel could be more than plot. It’s a high I’ve been greedily chasing since: as an English major in college, an unsuccessful starter-of-book-groups in TV rewrite rooms and a novelist myself.”

Priya Parmar, the author most recently of “Vanessa and Her Sister,” recalled: “In 11th grade, I took a class called Romantic Poetry. Our teacher unexpectedly had to move away partway through the year. Another teacher, Ms. Sidebotham, came back early from maternity leave to take her place. She brought her new baby, Susannah, with her. There were nine of us, and all that spring we pushed back the desks and sat on a circle on the floor and read poetry. When it got warm, we sat out on the grass under the oak trees. It was the kind of rare, special magic that happens when a class becomes something else. A group? A club? A team? No one word catches it whole. We became an us. Summer came. Susannah could roll over. We cried when the year ended. I asked Ms. Sidebotham for a book that would carry that feeling of collective magic forward over the summer. Carry it forward and forward so I would never lose it. She gave me ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,’ by Betty Smith. I carry it forward.”

The poet Ada Limón “had a wonderful English teacher in junior high named Mr. Larimore,” she wrote. “When he returned a paper that he liked, he wrote ‘GO TO COLLEGE’ in giant letters on the front page. I liked reading, but much preferred being read to, and it was hard to do on my own with any interest. With his approval, I picked out ‘The October Country,’ by Ray Bradbury. What shocked me was the compression of the stories. The otherworldliness. I had never read stories like this. The sense of surprise. The distrust of human beings. How the enemy could be the wind or a crowd, or how a farmer could be forced to cut wheat that isn’t wheat at all with his giant scythe. I also learned the word scythe! It was just weird enough for me at 13. Just forbidden enough. Just dark and morbid enough to keep my interest. I still think about those short stories, their strange and eerie turns, how it gave the world another magical (and creepy) possibility.”

Veronica Chambers, a senior editor at The Times and the author, most recently, of “Queen Bey,” started college at 16, and found solace in her Spanish literature course. “Nacuñan Saez, my professor, handed me Isabel Allende’s ‘The House of the Spirits’ that year, and it was the very definition of the rabbit hole that took Alice to Wonderland. He gave me book after book after that: classics by Borges and Márquez, but also books by authors I’d never heard of, like Silvina Ocampo. Magic realism became our secret language. That book and these conversations taught me everything — how this language that I mostly knew as the domain of my mother and older relatives was something magnificent, truly stunning on the page.”

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An Intimate Look at Italy’s Saffron Harvest

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An Intimate Look at Italy’s Saffron Harvest

With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’ve launched a new series, The World Through a Lens, in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. This week, Susan Wright shares a collection of photographs from a saffron harvest in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

A few years ago, though, in happier times, I traveled to this isolated corner of Italy, east of the Apennine Mountains, to photograph the annual autumn saffron harvest.

It was my first adventure across the country’s rugged central mountains — to the wilder side, away from the popular tourist spots, where the terrain is pristine and sleepy medieval villages are scattered throughout the pretty foothills.

Having grown up in a rural setting in Australia, I was fascinated by the Italian agricultural communities: their deep connection to centuries-old traditions, and the infusion of their land and culture with an infectious love and passion.

How wonderful that these rural communities throughout Italy come together for their annual festivals, known as sagre, which are often dedicated to a specific local food.

Giovannina Sarra (often called the Saffron Queen) and her family hosted me and a handful of others at their home. Early in the morning, in the Navelli plateau, we fanned out among the misty, violet-tinged fields and participated in the harvest.

Saffron, which is taken from the stigmas of the saffron crocus, is a lucrative crop. Also called oro rosso, or red gold, it was first introduced into the region around the 13th century — an import from Spain. Prized as an exotic spice, it was sold in the wealthier regions and cities of Milan and Venice, and abroad in France, Germany and Austria.

Saffron is harvested in the hours just before sunrise, while the crocus petals remain closed; this makes the flowers easier to pick and helps protect their precious crimson-red stigmas. The delicate buds are handpicked and placed into baskets.

Later, on the same day, the stigmas — three tiny threads per flower — are separated from the moist petals. It’s a delicate process that takes hours with a skilled and patient hand.

In the evening, over an open wood fire, the bright threadlike stigmas are dried in wire baskets, a process that adds to the richness of both the color and the flavor.

It takes roughly 4,000 flowers to make one ounce of saffron powder — which means there’s a staggering amount of labor packed into the tiny containers in which the spice is sold.

Not long ago, when I sat down to a mouthwatering plate of Risotto alle Milanese (a dish that’s infused with saffron), I recalled the early misty morning I spent with Gina Sarra and her family.

But there’s no doubt that families like the Sarras will one day return to the restorative power of their sagre — and to the many traditions that have endured for generations in the fields of the Navelli plateau and beyond.

Susan Wright is an Australian photographer based in Italy, where she has lived since 2003.

Word + Quiz: meniscus

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Word + Quiz: meniscus

1. (optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other

2. (physics) the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube

3. (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint

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The word meniscus has appeared in 24 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 24 in “Zion Williamson Is Back. Will His Knee Hold Up?” by Jeré Longman:

With guidance from the medical staff of the New Orleans Pelicans, Williamson tried to correct biomechanical flaws suspected of contributing to a tear in the lateral meniscus — a rubbery, shock-absorbing cartilage on the outside of his right knee.

The meniscus was trimmed during surgery in October. Then, said Williamson, who can leap so much higher and is so much more agile than one might expect of someone his size, it was time to learn how to run and jump more safely. Williamson trained himself to land with his knees bent, instead of straight-legged. The bent-knee landing helps disperse the pounding forces of basketball. He also worked to avoid tilting his knees inward when landing with a rebound or making a sharp cut, which can put added stress on the outside of the joints.

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How Much Do You Know About Mozambique?

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How Much Do You Know About Mozambique?

Can you find Mozambique on a map? What else do you know about this African nation with about 30 million people?

Lesson of the Day: ‘Teenager, an Aspiring Detective, Returns $135,000 He Found’

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Teenager, an Aspiring Detective, Returns $135,000 He Found’

In this lesson, you will consider what Mr. Nuñez’s actions, and the community’s response to those actions, say about him and about our larger society.

Imagine you are walking down the street and you see a wallet. You open it and it has an ID but no money. Would you return it? What if it had $20? What about $200? Would that prompt you to change your decision?

Is it stealing if you keep it? Are you a sucker if you return it? What’s the right thing to do?

We asked that same question in a Student Opinion prompt earlier this year. One student commented, “If it has a lot of money in it I think a lot of people would actually be more obligated to return the wallet knowing that the person would miss it more.” What do you think about that response? Do you think it would be more tempting to keep the money if it was only a small sum? Why?

Jose Nuñez Romaniz found a bag with $135,000. What do you think would go through your mind if that happened to you? Would you give the money back immediately? Would you be tempted to keep any of it? What do you think most people would do in this situation?

Read the article, then answer the following questions:

1. Where did Mr. Nuñez find the money? Why did it have a tag on it that said how much money it was supposed to contain? How much money was in the bag?

2. Why did he move the money from the place where he found it? Why did he decide not to call the phone number that was posted on the A.T.M.? What did he do instead?

3. How did Mr. Nuñez say he felt at the time? What about later, when he learned that a ceremony would be held to honor him?

4. Mr. Nuñez said, “I’ve wanted to be a crime scene investigator or a detective for the police since I was a kid.” Based on how he reacted in this unusual situation, do you think he would make a good law enforcement officer? Why?

5. Officer Simon Drobik, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman, described the Nuñez family as humble. He also said: “It was amazing to watch them. There’s a greater good there. They weren’t blown away by Jose’s actions, but everyone else was.” Why was the Nuñez family not surprised by what Jose did? Why do you think other people were surprised? What was your reaction when you read the article?

A special ceremony was held on May 7 to honor Mr. Nuñez. He was given gift cards, merchandise from a sports store, a $500 scholarship from an electric company and a plaque. He also got to throw the first pitch in an improvised ceremony with the Albuquerque Isotopes, a minor-league baseball team, and got to meet the mayor.

Watch the video embedded in the tweet below.

Why do you think Mr. Nuñez was given these honors and gifts? Was it to thank him for being honest? Was it to remind the rest of us that there is reason to have faith in humanity? Was it to make Mr. Nuñez a role model for other children and teenagers, to show that good things can happen when you do the right thing? Are there other reasons the community might have decided to hold a special ceremony for Mr. Nuñez?

What is your reaction to the ceremony? Was it the right thing to do for Mr. Nuñez, no matter what the reasons? Why?

2020 Coursera Virtual Conference: Reflections and Resources

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2020 Coursera Virtual Conference: Reflections and Resources

By the Coursera Conference Team

The Coursera Conference is an opportunity for our global community to engage around innovative teaching and learning experiences. This year, after careful consideration for the growing concerns surrounding the spread of COVID-19, the Coursera Conference transitioned from a two day, in-person event to a free, fully virtual experience focused on “The Digital Transformation of Higher Education, COVID-19 and Beyond.” 

With an audience of over 3,200 attendees from 78 countries, we are humbled that the 2020 Coursera Virtual Conference enabled so many people from around the world to connect and discuss higher education’s most pressing issues.

In addition to forcing a pivot in the program’s format, the pandemic was also a common topic of conversation. Here are four themes that surfaced during the conference — from the bookending remarks by our co-founders to the four sessions in between.

Coursera Co-Founder Daphne Koller opened with an acknowledgement that many workers now will not be able to make a living but said Coursera is a place for millions of people “genuinely looking for some hope and the path forward.” 

Pointing to research from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum, Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda described how our catalog and stackable content can help the most vulnerable — people in “jobs making the lowest wages, with the lowest levels of education.” 

Shravan Goli, Chief Product Officer at Coursera, said the company has seen a 1500% month-over-month increase in demand for personal development content on the platform between February and March of this year.

In conversation with Coursera Chief Enterprise Officer Leah Belsky, Duke University’s Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation Matthew Rascoff predicted that the increased adoption of courseware will be a longer-range impact. “We need to move away from the language of ‘teaching someone else’s course,’” Rascoff said, adding that “curation is its own art. The new model of teaching and learning is going to reward that resourcefulness.” 

In a panel moderated by former Coursera CEO and former president of Yale University Rick Levin, HolonIQ Co-CEO and Co-Founder Patrick Brothers said course sharing especially makes sense “at the foundational level where the content differentiation isn’t high.”

Ted Mitchell, President of the American Council on Education, drew a parallel between course sharing and another classroom instrument we often rely on. “We’ve done this before: textbooks are the old version of this exact conversation. Textbooks are a distillation of a high-level, common understanding of a field of study,” Mitchell said, “we are just doing it now far more efficiently.”

Shravan Goli, Emily Glassberg Sands, and Ken Sun, product leaders at Coursera, showed how we are helping educators respond to the pandemic with product innovations such as CourseMatch and Live2Coursera, which will automatically upload Zoom recordings for future use in a course. Ken also deemed Coursera’s new Machine-Assisted Peer Review “the most groundbreaking improvement ever.” The tool enables grading at scale with a machine learning model that can automatically assess 48% of the 1.9 million submissions.

Dr. Simone Buitendijk, Vice Provost at Imperial College London, sees “enormous possibilities in the COVID-19 crisis” to speed up global collaboration, but said institutions need to put rankings aside and move away from being very competitive with each other. 

Bringing the topic closer to home, Dr. Sharon Kardia, Associate Dean for Education and Millicent W. Higgins Collegiate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, said we need many lines of connection to be built for the next leap in education, starting within campuses — schools and colleges inside a university need to find more ways to collaborate.

While access is key, Dr. Rupamanjari Ghosh, Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University, said “affordable education without quality is highly dangerous and no good for anybody.” 

Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda pointed out that “the marginal cost of delivery to a fully online course is quite low and the value is quite high.” Given these economics, Coursera and our community of partners can help — especially as the pandemic highlights compounding layers of inequality in the workforce: Do you work for a company whose business model is mostly digital? If so, do you have the kind of job that can be done remotely? Even further, do you have the tools, technology, and bandwidth?

Coursera’s Co-Founder Andrew Ng, noted that as school campuses close around the world, “it’s up to all of us to use the digital realm to make sure that education becomes more, rather than less, accessible.”

It was humbling to see partners, educators, learners, and leaders from around the world gather on Zoom for Coursera’s first-ever virtual conference. If you couldn’t join us, you can watch recordings of all presentations during the 2020 Coursera Virtual Conference:

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Word + Quiz: affront

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Word + Quiz: affront

noun: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect

verb: treat, mention, or speak to rudely

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The word affront has appeared in 135 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 23 in “Imams Overrule Pakistan’s Coronavirus Lockdown as Ramadan Nears” by Maria Abi-Habib and Zia ur-Rehman:

While clerics and governments across the Muslim world will greet Ramadan this week under lockdown, working together to shut mosques and urging worshipers to pray at home, in Pakistan, some of the most prominent imams have rallied their devotees to ignore the anti-pandemic measures.

…. An editorial in the prominent newspaper Dawn demanded that the clerical establishment take a back seat and let the government manage the crisis.

“This should not be seen as an affront to religion,” editors wrote last week. “Rather, it is an attempt to save the lives of the general public.”

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The Stories Maps Can Tell

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The Stories Maps Can Tell

A recent Times article suggests that you “release your inner explorer” by reliving, commemorating or envisioning a favorite place in the world through creating an illustrated map of it.

What place would you choose? Your own neighborhood? Your favorite vacation spot? A place you long to visit when quarantine is over? Or, perhaps, might you want to draw a place that doesn’t actually exist, like a fantasy island? No matter what you choose, what landmarks would you include? Why? What story might this map tell about who you are and what you care about?

Film Club: ‘Concert for One: I.C.U. Doctor Brings Classical Music to Coronavirus Patients’

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Film Club: ‘Concert for One: I.C.U. Doctor Brings Classical Music to Coronavirus Patients’

In chaotic emergency rooms and intensive care units around New York City, coronavirus patients struggle to survive in isolation, with masked doctors and nurses keeping their distance and family visits barred. Alarms, monitors and overhead announcements blare incessantly.

But at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, the music of Bach, Brahms and even the Beatles has begun wafting through patient rooms, played by accomplished performers — recently out-of-work chamber music players; winners of international competitions and prizes; teachers at prestigious music schools.

They perform from California, Kentucky, Maine, Virginia, Massachusetts and New York, where they are sheltered in place. The music plays through an iPhone or iPad placed at the bedside of patients who indicated they wanted to hear a performance, using FaceTime’s audio-only feature to protect their privacy.

“I’m hoping to offer a brief moment of comfort or distraction or beauty,” said Michelle Ross, a violinist in Manhattan who has performed for the patients.

At the Allen Hospital, which is at the northern tip of Manhattan and serves a community that is largely low income and minority, the toll of coronavirus cases has been particularly devastating. Last week, a top emergency room physician at Allen died by suicide, putting a spotlight on the struggles at the small hospital.

At times, the 200-bed hospital has had as many as 170 coronavirus patients; by early April, there were 59 patient deaths, The New York Times has reported.

It was around that time that the concert idea blossomed. Dr. Rachel Easterwood, who works the night shift in the I.C.U., had despaired at how little could be done for some patients. “I just felt desperate actually, and helpless,” she said. “People are dying left and right.”

One evening off, she listened to a cellist friend in California play Bach for her over FaceTime. Dr. Easterwood, 35, who played clarinet professionally before going to medical school, found the music comforting.

“Man, I wish we could do that in the hospital,” she told her friend, as he recalled the conversation. At that moment, the idea about playing for patients clicked.

What I have Learned (in the last 2mths)

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What I have Learned (in the last 2mths)

The old adage, take time to smell the roses, I always found odd.  I mean I understand its “meaning”, but I thought to myself, who has the time, to just sit back, relax and well, smell flowers – besides say my late Diego (dog) and now sometimes Cali (dog) who I think is really smelling them for squirrel scents.

Whenever I talk to folks, I often say pre-pandemic and now, to represent what the industry was like in the past, and well, what it is now and going forward  (I always note it as for the rest of the year).  I dislike saying “Post-Pandemic”, because until a vaccine is made available for the masses, the virus isn’t taking a holiday or going away to visit Mars.   It is here to stay. 

Any data from any research firm that presented CAGR or revenue projections for 2020, that was pre-pandemic, can go right into the trash can.  It’s worthless data, because no one foresaw the pandemic when they were writing up their forecasts and projections. 

That’s just a fact.  I myself, spent the past 1.5 months scouring data numbers from a global perspective on the B2B/B2C market for financial projections and always had to clarify “pre, now, and project into early 21.   I feel confident on the numbers and the verticals/industries most likely to take a hit, and not necessarily rebound as quickly as folks would like or want.

For L&D (employee) wise projections, I am still working on that side of the data house, with a financial forecast and won’t have one ready until the end of the month.  And as with anything, there is always caveats, after all, no one is Nostradamus, and if those folks who always want to tell you the “Future” at carny shows are so good, how come none of them, ever win the lottery?  I’m just saying – be honest, you have thought it too!

Learned

#1 – Many vendors in the EdTech market have done a poor job, helping their school clients during the Pandemic.  Many reached out to the school and asked if they needed any assistance, and some went further with providing tutorials, helping teachers and what not.  But very very few, offered or even provided training or tutorials to the parents (who are having a lot of problems).   I know of parents at one school district here in LA, who have told me, that they can’t access certain features in their parent portal, because no one ever explained how to do so.  The school’s tech lab person provided them with a user name and password and that is it.

If you do any cursory search you will find that the whole learning system experience, as a whole, has been awful in the Edtech space – from a child – the student, and parent perspective.  It does no one any good, when this occurs and no wonder, more folks enjoy the bash of e-learning as a result.

I do wish to recognize though a couple of vendors who went beyond for their school clients – D2L, Instructure and itslearning.  NEO did a solid job too. 

At the university level, EdTech systems fared at a so-so level.  Professor re-training? Mixed. Student tutorials? Mixed.  Getting students at that level to be excited about taking online content? Awful – from the university perspective, that is to say, Academia really took a back seat here when it came to what was possible with e-learning and interactive experiences to their students (topic related) and what was/is actually being done.   Just when you thought, there is no way any lecture could get any worse (as you sat back in the days of your schooling), you should check out what some “e-learning” sessions were like now.

#2.  Not fully understanding the remote workers learning approach.  For years, research has shown that most people who are salaried, access a learning system, outside of the workplace.  But for many companies, whose employees were working from home, that data point was lost (even though there are companies who tell employees to access on their own time).   The result – quite a bit of task driven learning, which just isn’t effective. 

#3.  A survey of LXP vendors, found that overall, they are seeing better than expected sales for early Q2 (fiscal calendar year), compared to all other types of learning systems (i.e. LMS, Learning Platform, Sales Enablement and so forth).  While it is true that not every LXP vendor is experiencing this, it is clear that the pack to starting to break out.

It reminds me of what occurred in the authoring tool space many years ago, where you had a couple of leaders, then the mass, followed by those coming up in the rear.

#4 LXP Pack Status

If the sales data continues for this quarter, and stays even at similar for the next two quarters, what you will see (okay, not really “see”), is the following:

  • Leaders – Three or four that really stand out.  The top two will be customers/sales (never assume that having 1,000 customers versus 850 customers, means that at 1,000 that company has more sales, because it isn’t always the case).  By having the financial resources, they can invest more in R&D, and internal resources (ppl) too.   One of these leaders though, is a concern to me, because what I thought they would be doing (after an acquisition), and which they denied would occur, is uh, going to occur.  And personally, I think that is really a bad idea. 
  • Mid of the Pack – Could they jump up into the leader Quad? Absolutely, but innovation, thinking out of the box has to take a priority here, and not following what everyone else is doing nor relying only on what your clients are asking/wanting.

If your goal is to mimic an LMS, then I can tell you, that is really a bad goal. Similar to those goals you set at the beginning of a new year, one of which is to stop stealing your neighbor’s newspaper, only to realize that if you stop, what will you read when your spouse is trying to get your attention?

  • Bottom Feeders – Yes, they will have customers.  They will invest in R&D, but they will never get to upper mid of the pack level.  No vendor will ever tell you they are struggling or low mid-pack or worse.  Everyone has big name clients (usually a department/division, unless the vendor says “we are the only LXP” for the entire company or customer base”), so you can’t rely on that.  

#5 I’m just like you – LXP Style

First came ubiquitous on the LMS side of the house, and now more and more LXPs are becoming so similar to each other, that nothing really surprises me anymore.  Okay, I shouldn’t fully say that because CK Connect with their personality assessment angle, was a pleasant surprise and not something I’ve seen with any other LXP, but so many of the same features and capabilities are showing up, it can easily become white noise.   Innovation is down across all learning system types, and has been for years,  if there was ever a time, to change the path, this is it. 

#6 Buy-Buy

The buying spree continues, as learning system vendors and non learning vendors (including PE firms) are buying up other e-learning solutions including authoring tool, content provider, learning systems – across all types and tools.

What has yet to happen, and to me would make the most sense is a learning system vendor (LMS, LXP, SEP, etc.) acquiring a digital coaching platform, skills management platform and/or online proctoring vendor. 

Expect to see more acquisitions in the coming months and in a specific total sales range – for learning systems (Sorry, can’t disclose). 

#7 vILT – Plan now, start to find, and begin hiring (for the training session)

Face to Face (physical ILT) is not going to happen to at least 2021 for the majority of companies who conduct ILT.  This is based on three key factors (on why it won’t happen sooner)

a.  Even with “openings” and businesses being open for their employees in the next few months, many employees (who are currently working remote) are not going to return to the office, they will prefer to work remote.  In the U.S. Congress (okay the Senate) is discussing a bill to limit i.e. make it beyond difficult – for an employee to sue if they get sick at their company’s offices.  Right now, they can sue – and the employer is liable.  I am unsure of the status in other countries, but here in the U.S., it should cause employers to take notice.   What isn’t in discussion is what will happen if a guest comes to the workplace and in our scenario is providing training.  They get the virus. Head back to wherever, and it spreads.   

Regardless, until there is a vaccine, and if your employer doesn’t force you to come into the office, remote is where it is at. 

b. 3rd party presenters/instructors/experts may not be too thrilled to come to a location, where they might get the virus. Plus, the whole way the session is to be presented has to change.  Hard to gauge level of interest, when the person’s face is partially covered by a mask. 

c. Setup has to drastically change.  No more audience seating – next to one another. Round tables? Goodbye. Unless, only three to a table, and spread out.  Try to do computer training, which tables next to each other, and little space to move around.  And we aren’t even getting into the hand sanitizer, plastic guards and so forth.

If you are planning/had plan to offer ILT, go vILT but start to think about when and whom with the topic identified or in process.  Hire sooner rather than waiting to see how it turns out.  If you have someone specific in mind, recognize they might be booked already or are starting to book. 

Even if you plan to use say Big Name Entity presenters of Sales for example, and you love Fred DogFace, a great trainer in the past, FDF (as his friends call him), might be booked out.  Then what will you do?  Hire someone else? If yes, Steve is available. But only on Tuesday between 9 and 10 a.m.

Bottom Line

Every day is a learning experience.  A learning moment. 

And you do not need to stop and smell the roses.

Petunias will do.

E-Learning 24/7

Big news – Starting in just 10 days, will be my new Virtual Presentation Series. Each week, we dive into a L&D, training, e-learning topic. From Systems to Best Practices. Insight, knowledge and latest research.   Details coming.  Always free to attend and view later (via a recording).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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