@lauraritchie @econproph Well this is something I've been writing about and working on for two decades. Not just me, there's a whole community of us. So my first reaction is that it's great that people are talking about this but it's not new and it's not a discovery. I compiled 'Knowledge, Learning and Community back in 2001 to capture a lot of these ideas in their formative stages. http://www.downes.ca/files/books/KnowledgeLearning.pdf and (much) more recently I've taken to calling the phenomenon 'The Yale Advantage'. 1/2