Jack Park
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Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 07:42:40 PDT


From:   Jack Park
jackpark@thinkalong.com
Reply-To: unrev-II@yahoogroups.com

To:     unrev-II@yahoogroups.com

Subject:   The future of higher education


It is my firm belief that one of the most important use cases for OHS/DKR technology resides in the vast expanses of human activity called learning. Parker Rossman posted some comments to the Global Brain list that included a URL that led to the following site:

http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch/index.html

This is a 3-volume (I've not looked at the entire manuscript yet!) online manuscript entitled

The Future of Higher Education:
For All Worldwide, a Holistic View

On that page, we read:

"THESE PAGES ARE UNDER CONTINUING CONSTRUCTION. SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME, ESPECIALLY LINKS TO WEB PAGES WITH UPDATED INFORMATION ON ANY OF THESE TOPICS. Especially corrections of errors."

....which leads me to believe that this manuscript is intended to be a *living document*. I suppose that were it to be contained in a DKR implemented with NODAL, the document would include version control.

In any case, we read:

"Volume One begins with institutional forms and structures and focuses on preservation and transmission of the knowledge and wisdom of the past. Volume Two is on the future of research. Volume Three focuses on the individual: learning and teaching. They should be seen as an 'outline' to which web page addresses will be added."

I cannot make any concrete value judgements on the manuscript; I have just begun to probe its depths (and download it for further study). But, Volume 1, Chapter 2 begins with the following George Gilder quotation:

"The force of microelectronics will blow apart all the monopolies, hierarchies, pyramids and power grids of established. . . society. --George Gilder"

I confess: that quote mirrors my own sentiments.

The manuscript merits the following:

Cheers,