Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
SCHOOL stands for Stephen Campbell Home of Online Learning
Here are a couple charts.
The key is likely to be the course development teams that will build the content. It was not clear what the "communities" will end up allowing or doing,
There was no mention of the impact of not having an education director who was dismissed recently.
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Thanks for joining the meeting and sharing the slide.
There are two elements to the platform: communities and a learning management system.
The Communities will be similar to StampoRama or other forums out there. Just centered on specific audiences. The idea is to create a place for members to learn more about a specific topic or a certain function. We use chapters as an example because we want to create a community for club organizers to exchange ideas for their clubs from recruiting to programs, volunteers and leadership development. I belong to nearly 90 stamp clubs and I hear from club presidents regularly about one challenge or another and I can refer them to other models that work. Calling or writing me shouldn't be the only way for them to gain that sort of knowledge. At the same time, we want to give people a place to ask questions about philately, collecting, and research. We get several of the same routine questions and we see an interactive opportunity for collectors to meet others who share similar collecting interests and build relationships.
As for Learning Management, even before C3a, our education programs were largely more specialized single topics. We need to create teams of subject matters experts by topic, country, or collecting area to develop better organized educational content that gives collectors a more holistic approach. Postal history, for example, is a broad topic, so how do you break it down for collectors to learn how to acquire, understand the cover, research routes and rates, etc. There is no one hour course that can do that justice, but working with someone who can approach those broader topics with specialists can help us create better organized and understandable resources that members can go back to again and again.
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I'm all for anything that encourages our hobby and applaud those so involved, hopefully the hard work will pay off.
However the hobby has always been more of an individual at home hobby, not like a quilt guild stitch and bitch retreat where everyone takes work along to show and work upon, whilst socialising with like minded folks.
I recently gave an illustrated talk at our stamp club, web linked, regarding the Stamporama site, it's benefits and how the site works and it's knowledge base and free access. Sadly no one from the club has since joined, maybe I was not good enough, but it could well be apathy.
The club meets monthly, but only from September through to April, sometimes meets are cancelled because of winter conditions. Most of our members are probably of retirement age and above, but a few younger ones are starting to come. Would be good if they stay and become more active.
Where the APS might assist the hobby, I feel, is having a website of indexed links to knowledge based sites where the information is confirmed as correct or to be trusted. A one stop link shop.
As an example, there does not seem to be a reliable site regarding various countries self adhesive stamps soakability, yet it is a question that crops up repeatedly in various forums. The major catalogues do not impart such information in their listings. Although there is usually a general statement somewhere.
Purely as an aside, I always wish the stamp catalogues would actually use the words on the stamps as the description, rather than a translation.
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Good feedback and thank you for sharing it. We have a new site under development and are working on the best way to organize resources into a usable format for web visitors. With the amount of traffic we get, it would be helpful to include as many tools for collectors as possible.
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It is going to take a special person and lots of help to achieve the goals you state.
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If you look back at the slides, the goals are cross department goals. The membership department is lead on communities, although our team see benefits for other departments.
The education department will lead on the learning management system. The education director will be the project manager, but will also have staff support from membership, product development, and content.
We eliminated unitaskers and silos long ago.
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I have not seen such coordination to date netween the editorial departments, education departments, and library as they are each focused on their own tasks. In the meeting, none of the dept reports really mentioned it. I would expect to see common bullets in each dept presentation regarding "education".
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The editorial department presented on StampEd at the last Board meeting. Another element of education and outreach.
I did not mention the library in my last post.
In every report I give, I discuss the universal missions of education and membership and how they are integrated across the agency.
I’m not sure what you’re pushing back on.
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At the Nov 14 meeting of the APS/APRL board there was a presentation on the education strategy.
SCHOOL stands for Stephen Campbell Home of Online Learning
Here are a couple charts.
The key is likely to be the course development teams that will build the content. It was not clear what the "communities" will end up allowing or doing,
There was no mention of the impact of not having an education director who was dismissed recently.
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09:03:20am
re: APS's Education strategy
Thanks for joining the meeting and sharing the slide.
There are two elements to the platform: communities and a learning management system.
The Communities will be similar to StampoRama or other forums out there. Just centered on specific audiences. The idea is to create a place for members to learn more about a specific topic or a certain function. We use chapters as an example because we want to create a community for club organizers to exchange ideas for their clubs from recruiting to programs, volunteers and leadership development. I belong to nearly 90 stamp clubs and I hear from club presidents regularly about one challenge or another and I can refer them to other models that work. Calling or writing me shouldn't be the only way for them to gain that sort of knowledge. At the same time, we want to give people a place to ask questions about philately, collecting, and research. We get several of the same routine questions and we see an interactive opportunity for collectors to meet others who share similar collecting interests and build relationships.
As for Learning Management, even before C3a, our education programs were largely more specialized single topics. We need to create teams of subject matters experts by topic, country, or collecting area to develop better organized educational content that gives collectors a more holistic approach. Postal history, for example, is a broad topic, so how do you break it down for collectors to learn how to acquire, understand the cover, research routes and rates, etc. There is no one hour course that can do that justice, but working with someone who can approach those broader topics with specialists can help us create better organized and understandable resources that members can go back to again and again.
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I'm all for anything that encourages our hobby and applaud those so involved, hopefully the hard work will pay off.
However the hobby has always been more of an individual at home hobby, not like a quilt guild stitch and bitch retreat where everyone takes work along to show and work upon, whilst socialising with like minded folks.
I recently gave an illustrated talk at our stamp club, web linked, regarding the Stamporama site, it's benefits and how the site works and it's knowledge base and free access. Sadly no one from the club has since joined, maybe I was not good enough, but it could well be apathy.
The club meets monthly, but only from September through to April, sometimes meets are cancelled because of winter conditions. Most of our members are probably of retirement age and above, but a few younger ones are starting to come. Would be good if they stay and become more active.
Where the APS might assist the hobby, I feel, is having a website of indexed links to knowledge based sites where the information is confirmed as correct or to be trusted. A one stop link shop.
As an example, there does not seem to be a reliable site regarding various countries self adhesive stamps soakability, yet it is a question that crops up repeatedly in various forums. The major catalogues do not impart such information in their listings. Although there is usually a general statement somewhere.
Purely as an aside, I always wish the stamp catalogues would actually use the words on the stamps as the description, rather than a translation.
Just my pennyworth.
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05:03:24pm
re: APS's Education strategy
Good feedback and thank you for sharing it. We have a new site under development and are working on the best way to organize resources into a usable format for web visitors. With the amount of traffic we get, it would be helpful to include as many tools for collectors as possible.
Scott
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It is going to take a special person and lots of help to achieve the goals you state.
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08:24:22am
re: APS's Education strategy
If you look back at the slides, the goals are cross department goals. The membership department is lead on communities, although our team see benefits for other departments.
The education department will lead on the learning management system. The education director will be the project manager, but will also have staff support from membership, product development, and content.
We eliminated unitaskers and silos long ago.
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re: APS's Education strategy
I have not seen such coordination to date netween the editorial departments, education departments, and library as they are each focused on their own tasks. In the meeting, none of the dept reports really mentioned it. I would expect to see common bullets in each dept presentation regarding "education".
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07:07:34am
re: APS's Education strategy
The editorial department presented on StampEd at the last Board meeting. Another element of education and outreach.
I did not mention the library in my last post.
In every report I give, I discuss the universal missions of education and membership and how they are integrated across the agency.
I’m not sure what you’re pushing back on.
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