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Longtime Higher Ed Leader (and Former U.S. Congressman) Argues For a ‘Networked College’

Edsurge

That, in theory, will allow each campus to focus its energies on what it can do best and turn to outside companies and nonprofits for the rest. You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ? The campus of the future will be “networked,” argues Peter Smith, meaning that more and more academic-related services will be outsourced.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content.

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