I am confident it is right to invest in this area, but not confident about the vision to innovate HE itself, as well as innovate in the delivery of existing HE.

My feeling is that these need to happen hand-in-hand and that such radical innovation is opposed by the culture of HE.

In my view, HE culture is one of conservatism, maintaining a narcissistic self-image of high quality that is not fully accurate nor suited to the needs of learners in a widened participation and gobal context!

Paul

The report is more fog than foresight. It almost completely avoids the issue which has constrained the use of ICT both at HE and school level. That is the attempt to graft a post industrial approach onto an industrial and even pre-industrial education and administrative system.

An example is the mention of plagiarism and collaborative learning where does one start and the other end? How should assessment and accreditation be radically changed, as it must if the vision is to be realised?

How may students be enabled to mix and match the institutions, people and information sources with which they choose to study.

How can they ‘pay’ for those distributed sources which inevitably involve crossing physical and institutional borders?

These are fundamentals which need addressing with some urgency.