knowledge production
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Are courses obsolete?
The most criticised container in education is also the most durable. Here is what we learned from health workers participating in The Geneva Learning Foundation’s courses about why that is so difficult to change. The obituary that keeps being written In 2013, Sebastian Thrun looked at the completion rates for the massive open online courses…
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What is the Validation Tether?
In an experiment published in 2023, Lucía Vicente and Helena Matute asked participants to make decisions with recommendations from an artificial intelligence system. The system sometimes gave flawed advice. Among the participants, 80.7% detected errors and still followed the recommendations. They knew that a problem existed, but detection did not give them enough confidence or…
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Artificial intelligence for global health: a tragedy of the commons brewing in Geneva’s basement
In “The Machine in Geneva’s Basement”, Rifat Hossain sets the scene for the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the World Health Organization (WHO) with a story. A ministry official points a general-purpose assistant at WHO’s own open guidance library and has a serviceable national protocol before lunch. If this is possible, he asks, why…
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Don’t cancel or postpone your conference, workshop, or training – go digital
How we respond to the threat of a disaster is critical. Organizations planning physical-world events have a choice: You can cancel or postpone your event OR You can go digital. Why not go digital? You think it cannot be done. You do not know how to do it. You believe the experience will be inferior.…
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Publishing as learning
We are both consumers and producers of publications, whether in print or online. Publications are static containers for knowledge from the pre-Internet era. Even if they are now mostly digital, the ways in which we think about them remains tied to the past. Nevertheless, at their best, they provide a useful reference point, baseline, or benchmark…
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Unified Knowledge Universe
“Knowledge is the economy. What used to be the means has today become the end. Knowledge is a river, not a reservoir. A process, not a product. It’s the pipes that matter, because learning is in the network.” – George Siemens in Knowing Knowledge (2006) Harnessing the proliferation of knowledge systems and the rapid pace…
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