My answer to Elon Mask’s question, meaning, what was the
tough problem that you met and how did you resolve it.
In September, 2018, we have had an annual meeting with
university staff members including deans, deputy rectors and the rector. I had
a speech as a last speaker, everyone was tired and wanted to leave already, but
I was holding them with my speech. So, one of the professor simply started
bombarding me with critics and questions, just to sum-up he was saying that our
learning management system is extremely poor and IT is not dealing with
it. It was supposed to be welcoming and pleasant
meeting, but for me it turned into a nightmare meeting. Indeed, I was very
angry at first, for humiliating criticism addressed to me in front of three
hundred and over professors including my supervisors and the rector.
After the meeting, I visited the office of the professor. He
was very anxious and I was probably the last person who he would want to meet
after this meeting. Instead of defending myself or attacking him, I turned him
into my partner/consultant to develop a new custom based learning management
system. It took me 40 minutes of
motivational talking, partnership to create world’s number one LMS system and
apply for a patent. It worked. He turned out to be an excellent expert in this
area and never lost his enthusiasm till we launched the first version of our
Learning Board. He was so excited to
every feature that we were adding and adding to our LMS that he never stopped
visiting my office to discuss about new features. All I had to do is turn his
visions into a real working software by using my fabulous engineers. It took us
a semester to complete the project. As a
result, besides our university the university of diplomacy in Tashkent is using
our system and our university owns a patent for this system given to us by the intellectual
property organization. The best part of
it is, our system handled the 100% online teaching during the COVID-19. The
future plans are to turn this system into national learning management system
and commercialize the customization services of it. I do not know how long this Intranet system
will live, but I’m happy that the 2018 September meeting have happened in my
life.
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