Ol' Thought Coach musings moving forward...

What a break! OTC has know tragedy and triumph, rest and recharge. And here we come now into the gates for a spring of 2010 that will be nonpareil in reflection, once we break the tape of 05.31.10: deadline for uploads and judge registration for DMSC Governors Challenge, Vol. 4.

We have a triangulated marketing plan research project in place between UT Martin, Nashville State CC, and TSU. We put in a great semester last walking through the strategy and now we are ready to deploy.

Thanks to ETSU for hosting us again: DMSC is grateful to them for their visionary leadership the past three years.

We are now working with NSF-developed Problem Based Case Learning (PBCL) to provide a proven system of production, assessment, analytics and publication.

So here we are: Steve Holt and his team at Univ. of Tenn (Martin) are poised to drive service learning and our Engagement Network Challenge through TN Campus Compact, the national Compact and other major networks that work our turf.

University of Virginia is also using the model campus-wide this spring through an Atlantic Coast Conference innovation grant. OTC will be working with them. We see Educause and MacArthur outcomes, among others with this work. e.philanthropy is a mission-critical overlay to our system as it assures both ethical and incentivization issues are in balance. The end-user (student, faculty, staff, dept/major, college and institution entire benefit from such a design. Look for more on that from our marketing team.

Ol' Thought Coach gotta run but peace be with all both now and always: Stay tuned for my next post that lays out the steps for winning championships.

OTC out!