next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
From the WSSSC (Washington State Student Services Commission) WINTER 2008 [Minutes]: “Rick [MacLennan] discussed a potential 2008 Technology Plan developed by the state-wide Technology Transformation Task Force. There are six goals tied to the basic principles . . . . These include online advising, online applications . . . . Rick also shared the status and cost implications of ITPG collaborative development projects. Those projects are online course management, online integrated purchasing system;
online advising educational planning and student advising support; electronic personnel and application process; online time and attendance reporting; simplified sign on and electronic email retention systems. ITPG is coming around to the notion that to achieve many of the system goals, a technical team must be created to do the development and monitoring of these projects. Trish Onion shared a copy of House Bill 2783 that includes a web based advising system.” (North Seattle Community College, January 30-February 1)
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