California State University, East Bay has just released a white paper on a Virtual STEM University leveraging open learning ecosystem resources. This effort requires a new type of continuum. Has anyone else adopted anything similar? If so, were there measurable outcomes?

Related resources: http://getideas.org/?s=open+learning+ecosystem&scope=%2F

The Open Learning Ecosystem is a new paradigm for education — in such a model
•What implications do the personalized adoption and integration of technology such as digital media arts and social media among young people have on the ecosystem?
•How does cloud computing impact the development and thriving of the ecosystem?
•What roles do institutions of higher education and private industry play in the ecosystem, especially in their ability to create high-value robust, collaborative networks between themselves?
•Can the ecosystem help break down traditionally closed education and productivity systems and replace them with open systems? Which is required first to enable the other?
•What social and contextual dimensions of learning might be reconsidered as a result of the ecosystem being put into play

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