Educational Rhetoric
I am an educator, and I have a problem using business rhetoric when asking students for feedback about my courses. For example, I'd like students to be able to use GS for each of my classes. The only way I can do this is by added each as "products." While they might very well be "products," rhetorically, this is problematic. Even the title on my "company's" index page "Customer Support Community . . ." is not really apropos for educational purposes.
Perhaps you can develop different rhetorical models for different types of users: corporations, education, non-profits, etc?
Otherwise, while I'm new to GS, I am already thinking it will become an integral part of my communication in my teaching, especially with online courses. Thanks!
Perhaps you can develop different rhetorical models for different types of users: corporations, education, non-profits, etc?
Otherwise, while I'm new to GS, I am already thinking it will become an integral part of my communication in my teaching, especially with online courses. Thanks!
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The company has this under consideration.
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Inappropriate?It's great feedback, and something we're aware of. Part of our success has been that we haven't been an all-purpose community system, but instead focused on applying lessons from social media to customer support. So we get a lot of our strengths from that framing. However, we're also aware that the language in the UI could be simplified. So we're working on cleaning that up, and perhaps our refinements will make it less problematic for alternative use cases like yours.
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Thanks, Thor. I can see that your purview addresses business mostly, but when I was adding my account, you do have a selection for education. This seems like a natural offshoot of what GS is trying to do. Thanks. -
Inappropriate?G. R. Lucas, maybe coworkers.com would a better platform for this particluar purpose?
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