Thursday, November 02, 2006

A TEST OF LEADERSHIP : Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education

This is in my opinion probably the best strategic document available in higher education and research today!

"The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote the development of information technology-based collaborative tools and capabilities at universities and colleges across the United States, enabling access, interaction, and sharing of educational materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and educational perspectives. Both commercial development and new collaborative paradigms such as open source, open content, and open learning will be important in building the next generation learning environments for the knowledge economy."
Spellings commission report

See also the interesting discussion about this part of the report here:
Changing the Report, after the Vote