Posted 9:25 AM by George Siemens
On November 1, I wrote about the concept of collaboration between educational facilities to respond to the growth of for-profit education institutions. I came across an article that discusses collaboration between traditional education institutions and for-profit corporations...follow the link: Competition and Collaboration

Quote:
"For-profit firms use the internet to offer classes, courses and degree programmes in direct competition with nonprofit and government supported colleges and universities. At the same time, many firms seek to partner with academic institutions in offering online instruction or distance learning."

Comment:
As I mentioned previously...for-profit education companies need to become more "educational", and educational institutions need to become more "business-like"...is this the solution?

Here's an article that opens up a can of worms that all colleges/universities will have to confront: Intellectual Property Rights

Quotes:
"Universities need to redesign their antiquated systems for exploiting academic discoveries..."

"The growth of internet-based learning has opened up a whole new set of questions. At the moment, universities take a cut of the profits from any direct results of a discovery, but usually leave publishing rights to the academic."

hmm...interesting...