Increasingly, the focus of attention in higher education on accessibility, affordability, and accountability has blunted attention to a fourth "A": abundance. The history of human learning can perhaps best be described in terms of a lack of abundance, or scarcity. The current and prospective era of abundance will challenge many basic assumptions and practices about safeguarding, protecting, filtering, cataloguing, and vetting information ... The next half-century is likely to be characterized by ... the shift of attention, invention, and investment to systems designed to foster learning productivity and outcomes. One underlying principle of the knowledge-driven era is that education is a lifelong endeavor. The capacity to create a comprehensive digital record of work and life experiences ... will immensely influence institutional and individual behaviors, expectations, and experiences. In the race to leave no child behind, do we risk leaving everyone behind? ... a MemeStream on every desktop ... Reflections on the Life of the Mind in an Era of Abundance |