Justin, John and myself have been looking at some of the work universities and colleges are doing in the digital arena - especially using the iTunes/U platform; this Don "Wikinomics" Tapscott piece makes the point that colleges which don't adapt to the new technologies are going to go the same way as the newspaper industry.
"One thing is for sure. The smartest students want to get an “A” without having ever gone to the lectures. They understand that there are better ways of learning than being the passive recipient of a one-way, one size fits all, teacher-focused model where the student is isolated in the learning process. When the cream of the crop of an entire generation is boycotting the formal model of pedagogy, the writing is in the wall."
We're intrigued by the premise of New York's ARChive project, and tantalised by its online potential. In their own words:"The ARChive was established because for decades the record industry has done little to preserve its own heritage, and over the years many irreplaceable recordings and artifacts have been misplaced or destroyed. Even as the new medium of CDs has placed many out of print recordings back in circulation, many re-issues have different or truncated material, and many CDs themselves are already out of print. The record industry has yet to act to preserve its own heritage, as the film industry recently did after realising that nearly half of all films produced before 1950 have been lost."
Reminds us of the deeply fabulous Ubuweb archive of avant garde and experimental film.
Simon
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