Welcome to episode five of the Knowledge Exchange Podcast. This podcast series is a product supported by the Canadian Council on Learning – Canada’s leading organization committed to improving learning across Canada and in all walks of life.
I want to thank the great staff at CCL for their efforts with this project to advance our understanding of effective knowledge exchange to improve the learning of Canadians.
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The transcript may be downloaded here.
The conversation that you're about to hear is part of over an hour of discussion that occurred in Montreal on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 at Concordia University.
Dr. Abrami’s insights into knowledge exchange are very important to learning how to learn from each other – mutual dialogue, ongoing exchange, and the willingness to change and adapt. His emphasis on doing with rather than doing to, I think is the key to moving knowledge exchange forward. I was struck by the intelligence of his comments on sustainability and scalability – two of my personal areas of inquiry. The questions he raises about bridging communities, making the right investments, and the changes needed in scholarship to include the mobilization of findings are inspiring and daunting at the same time.
This conversation went on for almost twice as long as I include here – the hardest part was choosing what to edit out. Please pardon the construction noise in the background; it is however an appropriate metaphor for what is going on in knowledge exchange right now.
