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Randall Gwin

exploring life and education in Central Asia

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Gamify your English class with “Connecting through English”

Let students individualize their English language learning through choosing a path through hundreds of stories and videos. The stories are…

A new app for improving the health of pregnant Kyrgyz speakers

A team of female doctors and nurses who lived in Kyrgyzstan worked together to create the content for this app.…

Seminar: Building Community in Online Distance Learning

About a year and a half ago, teachers and students around the world were forced online to deal with the…

#edtech #odl #professionaldevelopment #asynchronous #seminar

Why porn’s addictive, museum visits don’t teach, and authentic leadership works.

Leadership is not just a matter of being passionately articulate about a vision or having the right combination of personality and physical traits; it’s about being actively present. Leaders may be able to improve their effectiveness as simply as by consistently showing up and engaging with their work and followers.

authentic leadership, northouse, true north

Culture and Leadership

If we say, “I can see your culture and my own, and choose what I want from each,” we’ve actually stepped into a third culture: that of the “enlightened,” who have replaced ethnocentrism with egocentrism. It tends to be a lonely culture.

aculturation, adaptation, culture, egocentrism, TCK

Women’s Day Leadership

On Monday, the price of tulips and roses tripled. All day, there have been lines in the grocery stores, many…

culture, gender, leadership

Psychodynamic Leadership: The solution (and the problem) is you – and maybe an invisible cat.

In early April, 2010, I met with my business manager to discuss the our progress relative to our business plan.…

culture, psychodynamic

Nasty, brutish, short – and effective? The LMX (Leader-Membership Exchange)

It’s brutal. It’s nasty. It leaves you solitary and poor, and makes your career aspirations short.

leader-membership exchange, leadership, LMX

Path-Goal Theory of Leadership vs. Demographics

Path-goal theory was under attack when I took some leadership classes in the early 1990s – so much so that…

criticism, demographics, leadershp, path-goal theory

The Myths of Eduction, and some defense thereof.

Simplification can occur through lack of clear definition, but it can also happen through logical fallacies and historical omissions, as with the claim that “technology is in and of itself deterministic.”

educatio, fallacies, myths, types of myths

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