Meta-university / Multi to Meta

Don Tapscott (author of Wikinomics) and Anthony D Williams have an interesting idea on innovating the 21st century University. Building on Charles M Vest's vision of a "meta-university", they argue for a Global Network for Higher Learning, focusing on collaborative learning and collaborative knowledge production, operating on a web-based platform. This suggestion, of course, builds on ideas currently in practice such as

1. Open Courseware,
2. digital academic repositories and
3. networks

for higher learning. Globally, as universities ponder their future, many of them are considering this model

http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/ROP.JD.Multi_to_Meta.4.02.pdf