EDUCAUSE is offering a free live web session Monday, March 21 at 1:00PM ET with John Seely Brown, entitled "A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change." Registration is required in order to subscribe to the live feed. You can register using this link.
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and co-chair of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. For years Brown has been a leading analyst and writer on the subjects of invention, innovation, technology and change. He is the author of many books, including The Social Life of Information (2000), Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management (2004), and most recently A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (2011), which, obviously, will be at the core of this presentation.
His book The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (2010) is available in a Kindle edition. Kindle has a fascinating service that aggregates the book's passages that Kindle readers of the book have highlighted, and anyone can view these snippets. Check out highlights of the book here and a video summary here.
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