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Business Week article discussed in class

Here is the link to the Business Week article written in 2000-

http://www.businessweek.com/archives/2000/b3711099.arc.htm#B3711100

Quoted highlights applicable for this class are (in my opinion)-

…producing armies of graduates who are comfortable with the latest gear and trained to use it on the job. Wired universities beget a wired nation

 Among CMU’s digerati, public enemy No. 1 is the old-fashioned lecture, where a scholar stands before hundreds of snoozing students and drones on for an hour or two. For them, the chief role of technology is to help end boredom. “In the future, learning … Continue Reading

iPhones go to front of the class at Texas university

Freshman students get their choice of Apple iPhone 3G or iPod Touch
I came across this article, and thought it was excellent to show how eveything is moving to mobile and everyone wants more freedom.

Collabrative Learning

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE FUTURE
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7139/full/446949a.html

Tech shop for geeks
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/07/like-kinkos-for.html

Article on business collaboration- don’t know how I found it or how scholarly- and have only quickly skimmed http://www.johnhagel.com/paper_orchestratingcollaboration.pdf