Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 22, 2010, 07:14 PM

Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. What happens to traditional educational institutions when learning also takes place on a vast range of Internet sites, from Pokemon Web pages to Wikipedia? This book investigates how traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. The authors propose an alternative definition of "institution" as a "mobilizing network"—emphasizing its flexibility, the permeability of its boundaries, its interactive productivity, and its potential as a catalyst for change—and explore the implications for higher education.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 18, 2009, 06:59 AM
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, is available now for purchase or free download from MIT Press. This is an abridged version of our forthcoming book from MIT Press, The Future of Thinking.

Submitted by ves4 on Oct 27, 2007, 02:10 PM
So I'm hanging in the Seattle airport thinking about my Educause experience this year and wondering about the future of Academic Technology, that strange hybrid entity emerging out of web design, data management, librarianship, CS, education and the work of various academic misfits--including myself

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 18, 2007, 09:17 AM
At the last MacArthur-sponsored forum on "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age," we talked about historian Pat Seed's digital projects that began in 1991 (the official birthyear of the internet). Her most recent on early Arabic maps of Africa made me rethink the religious-basis for early intraAfrican slavery . . . and that made me think about the religious persecutions in Europe. A new paradigm always generates new paradigms. The Inquisition as "tribal warfare."