{"id":24157,"date":"2011-10-11T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=24157"},"modified":"2012-01-11T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:53:09","slug":"hmmm-i-wonder-if-apples-building-the-walmart-of-education-that-ive-been-talking-about-potential-pieces-continue-to-be-implemented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/10\/11\/hmmm-i-wonder-if-apples-building-the-walmart-of-education-that-ive-been-talking-about-potential-pieces-continue-to-be-implemented\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmmm&#8230;I wonder if Apple&#8217;s building &#8220;The Walmart of Education&#8221; that I&#8217;ve been talking about&#8230;? Potential pieces continue to be implemented."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/apple-university-will-train-executives-to-think-like-steve-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Apple University will train executives to think like Steve Jobs<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from good.is by Liz Dwyer<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you want to honor Steve Jobs&#8217; life by following in his entrepreneurial footsteps, forget heading to business school. The Los Angeles Times reports that an Apple team has been working on a top-secret project to create an executive training program called Apple University. The goal? To train people to think like Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Apple refused to comment on the existence of Apple University, but the <em>Times<\/em> says that in 2008, Jobs &#8220;personally recruited&#8221; Joel Podolny, the dean of Yale Business School, to &#8220;help Apple internalize the thoughts of its visionary founder to prepare for the day when he&#8217;s not around anymore.&#8221; Apple analyst Tim Bajarin told the <em>Times<\/em> that, &#8220;it became pretty clear that Apple needed a set of educational materials so that Apple employees could learn to think and make decisions as if they were Steve Jobs.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Though the curriculum is still under wraps, Jobs himself oversaw the creation of the <em><strong>&#8220;university-caliber courses.&#8221;<\/strong> (emphasis DSC)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-apple-university-20111006,0,2205323.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steve Jobs&#8217; virtual DNA to be fostered in Apple University<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lat.ms\/pj63od\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/30.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lsnvav2gk01qzss4xo1_500.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Jobs&amp;#8217; virtual DNA to be fostered in Apple University:  To survive its late founder, Apple and Steve Jobs planned a training program in which company executives will be taught to think like him, in &amp;#8220;a forum to impart that DNA to future generations.&amp;#8221; Key to this effort is Joel Podolny, former Yale Business School dean.\nPhoto: Steve Jobs helped plan Apple University &amp;#8212; an executive training program to help Apple carry on without him. Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez \/ Los Angeles Times\" \/><\/a> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Steve Jobs helped plan Apple University &#8212; an executive training program to help<br \/>\nApple carry on without him. <em>(Michael Robinson Chavez \/ Los Angeles Times \/ October 6, 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>If Apple were to choose to disrupt higher education<\/strong>, several other pieces of the puzzle have already been built and\/or continue to be enhanced:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Siri &#8212; a serious start towards the use of intelligent agents \/ intelligent tutoring<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">An infrastructure to support 24x7x365 access and synchronization of content\/assignments\/files to a student&#8217;s various devices &#8212; via iCloud (available today via iTunes 10.5)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">iTunes U already has millions of downloads and contains content from some of the world&#8217;s top universities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The internal expertise and teams to create incredibly-rich, interactive, multimedia-based, personalized, customized educational content<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Students &#8212; like employees in the workplace &#8212; are looking for information\/training\/learning on demand &#8212; when they need it and on whatever device they need it<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Apple &#8212; or other 3rd parties &#8212; could assist publishers in creating cloud-based apps (formerly called textbooks) to download to students&#8217;\/professors&#8217; devices as well as to the Chalkboards of the Future<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The iPad continues to be implemented in a variety of education settings, allowing for some seriously interactive, mobile-based learning<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/12\/a-vision-of-the-future-smart-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17751\" title=\"DanielSChristian-May2010-ChalkboardOfTheFuture\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DanielSChristian-May2010-ChalkboardOfTheFuture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"575\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DanielSChristian-May2010-ChalkboardOfTheFuture.jpg 575w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DanielSChristian-May2010-ChalkboardOfTheFuture-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/12\/a-vision-of-the-future-smart-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4828\" title=\"DanielChristian-FutureChalkboardConnections-5-6-10\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DanielChristian-FutureChalkboardConnections-5-6-101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"565\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DanielChristian-FutureChalkboardConnections-5-6-101.jpg 602w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DanielChristian-FutureChalkboardConnections-5-6-101-150x140.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">At the least, I might be losing a bit more sleep if I were heading up an MBA program or a business school&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple University will train executives to think like Steve Jobs &#8212; from good.is by Liz Dwyer Excerpt: If you want to honor Steve Jobs&#8217; life by following in his entrepreneurial footsteps, forget heading to business school. 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