“Group work and collaboration in education are not just "feel good" activities but an important way of conducting business now and in the future. Did you know that the state of California is attempting to create wiki style textbooks? That companies such as Sun Microsystems and Proctor & Gamble post R&D problems online and pay cash rewards for solutions? That MIT has made all of its courses available online for free? That Second Life is actually a game in which 99% of the content is created by the users? That the new Google Chrome was financed to compete with Firefox, another free open source browser which Google also finances because they understand that true creativity comes with open sourcing? The future is all about matching up a specific problem with the uniquely qualified mind that can solve it. Lots of fascinating ideas here.”
