Lisa, I really like the concept of consumer of knowledge and they are also a distribute. Malcolm Gladwell uses terms like Maven, Connector and Salesperson to describe different people in his book The Tipping Point and as instructors we tend to participate in all of these categories. We are Mavens because we are experts at what we do, we are connectors as we connect students with their careers, and we are salespeople in that we constantly need to remind students what is in it for them and why the hard work is worth the end result.
James Jackson
