4km.net: Alice MacGillivray

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We are planning the 2008 offering of the Park System Leadership Course. Read more.

Charles Darwin observed that successful species are not the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but the ones that adapt to change. We are entering a period of profound change requiring new adaptations in the ways we work, learn and think. I am interested in how new research and thinking, that draws from the science of our natural world, can help us create more human, innovative and effective organizations and communities.

Learning Facilitation	Training, education and facilitation as a component of change Collaborative instructional design Course delivery (face-to-face and/or online) Keynote presentations Thesis supervision: qualitative research relating to leadership, change, land use in natural areas, environmental education, organizational or community learning and knowledge management.
Knowledge Generation and Sharing	Helping organizations and communities solve problems Supporting the transformation from training to learning Preparing for retirement waves Sharing knowledge amongst geographically-dispersed colleagues Building understanding across organizational boundaries Building new knowledge for a complex future
Experience with Technologies and Tools	Social technologies: e-learning and communities of practice platforms, synchronous and asynchronous tools and wikis. Technologies for spatial and attribute data integration A range of knowledge management techniques including knowledge cafes and story circles Cognitive Edge methods for work in complex environments

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I help organizations support communities of practice (a theoretically-grounded concept developed by Etienne Wenger), and designed and taught the first graduate course about these groups of people who share a strong interest, and learn from each other, often generating and sharing critical knowledge. A participant in the course, Dr. Howard Dobson, created a valuable resource for anyone interested in CoP-related research. (read more)

Recently, Dr. Bob Payne, the director of the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism at Lakehead University, invited me and other guests to speak to graduate students . . . (read full article)

Thank you for your support for cancer research. Yes, I completed the 60km walk in Vancouver! Here is my personal page for the walk and a photo of one of the many decorated Harleys used for traffic control.

In September 2007, we held a sustainability and systems related event on Vancouver Island for doctoral students at Fielding Graduate University. Read more.

I am quoted in Inside Knowledge, saying of Fielding Graduate University’s Information Society and Knowledge Organisations program: “One of the most striking things about the programme is the degree to which it models KM practices in faculty and student interactions. It is a very stimulating, collaborative and respectful environment in which considerable knowledge generation and sharing occurs.” Read the full article here.

MA in Leadership; MA in Human Development; PhD Candidate in knowledge organizations

Alice MacGillivray

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