Science, Education & Health

Science, Education & Health
| 08/24/2010 | Don Tapscott

OneBeep Offers One-Way Connectivity to Remote Communities

In true Wikinomics spirit, every year Microsoft’s Imagine Cup challenges students around the world to dream up new ways to use technology to solve some of the planet’s toughest problems. Participation in the contest has …   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 07/27/2010 | Macrowikinomics

Seniors Still In The Dark On New Health Law

Senior Healthcare Roundtable

That fact that people don’t know a lot about what’s in the new health law isn’t exactly news.

But a new poll that shows just how little Grandma and Grandpa know about it must be giving the new law’s supporters a serious case of heartburn.   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 06/04/2010 | Don Tapscott

The Impending Demise of the University

Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people.   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 02/04/2010 | Don Tapscott

Innovating the 21st-century university

In the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Anthony D. Williams and I have a 6,000-word essay discussing the urgent issues facing universities, that left unresolved, would see intuitions of higher learning going into a death …   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 02/04/2010 | Anthony Williams

Rebooting the University

In the forthcoming Macrowikinomics , Don Tapscott and I will be arguing that we’ve gone beyond wikinomics to a more encompassing societal shift as businesses and communities bypass crumbling institutions and old ways of doing business.   Read more