Inspiration to learn about yourself

During open education day in Zürich, Switzerland on March 18th, 2014, I visited Schwamendingen to learn about how people, who live there, learn. During the day, I experienced several examples of high quality personalized education with students of different ages - from 6 to about 15 years of age - and with different interests. Some examples: In some areas / places / situations, students sat at tables and on chairs that were adapted to how tall they are.  In some areas / places / situations, learners had decided themselves whether they want to work / learn individually or in groups.  In some areas / places / situations, education participants decided themselves whether they would prefer to use computer to learn.  In some areas / places / situations, I saw students develop questions themselves about what they wanted to learn, asking fellow students their questions, and listening to what they heard.  In most areas / places / situations, teachers were good at a...

At Niederhorn , about 2,000 meters above sea level in the impressive swiss mountains, I was positively surprised to see a relatively large number of solar panels installed on the roof of a building. What also surprised me was that I did not see any wind mills up there. Although I'm far from being a wind energy expert, there seems to be a potential for generating quite a lot of energy from the wind blowing on / in the mountains. For more information about renewable energy development, please feel welcome to visit this group .

How well do you know what your customers / users and/or other people, whom you serve, really need? How do you find out what they really need: To what extent do you ask them? To what extent do you do observations? To what extent do you do experiments? Here are some questions / issues to reflect on: Customer needs from Frank Calberg Services