Straddling Business and Scholarship

I live a secret, split life.

By day, I walk on the practitioner side of the street. I’m practical and results-oriented; I speak the language of business and work hard to support and promote learning in organizations, especially among those whose job it is to support and promote learning (like the learning leaders and practitioners at my company and the graduate students I encounter in instructional design programs).

But at night, I quietly look both ways and cross over to the other side of the street – the scholar side. There I find endless fascination with the kind of theory and research that others shrink from…

I would so love to find a way to walk more down the middle of the street rather than having to constantly switch sides… But as we know, walking down the middle of a street can be quite dangerous.

- From a blog