{"id":1969,"date":"2009-09-15T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2009-09-15T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T21:01:43","slug":"ubcs-olt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/09\/15\/ubcs-olt\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC&#8217;s OLT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Lamberson does not have a job I envy.\u00a0 Balancing the needs and budgets of her office with the needs of UBC students, faculty and departments is a recipe for the adage. \u201cyou can\u2019t please all of the people all of the time\u201d.\u00a0 There is no way to please everyone.<\/p>\n<p>She is intelligent and obviously possesses the skills to balance all of the demands placed upon her and her office.\u00a0 She gives the impression that she takes in multiple viewpoints and considers them all.\u00a0 If I had any critique to offer, I would suggest she be more aware of her eye movement during the interview.\u00a0 While very often intelligent people look away to form a thought it can be misinterpreted as evasiveness.\u00a0 She is fully versed in her subject and would project this more clearly if she held her gaze more directly.\u00a0 This small nuance falls into the credibility category.<\/p>\n<p>In a short interview, deeply considered projects can appear to have been quick and easy judgments.\u00a0 The decision to offer blogs and wikis to all students is almost presented as an experiment.\u00a0 The endpoint or definition of success is unclear yet, I am not sure in this case it can be clear.\u00a0 Decision-making within this paradigm is most challenging. An institution like UBC must be willing to try a few \u2018experiments\u2019 after intelligent consideration.<\/p>\n<p>As for the question &#8211; would I invest in this enterprise? \u2013 I believe my tuition bill speaks for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Lamberson does not have a job I envy.\u00a0 Balancing the needs and budgets of her office with the needs of UBC students, faculty and departments is a recipe for the adage. \u201cyou can\u2019t please all of the people all of the time\u201d.\u00a0 There is no way to please everyone. She is intelligent and obviously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[5181,409],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod02business-bootcamp","tag-hann","tag-m2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}