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Many of the observations about the increasing costs of rural education apply in rural Canada as well. Rural schools with highschool enrollments of under 100 students can't be sustained using current models. However, the use of technology would make it possible to deliver world connecting education with a fraction of the cost. Which means that small rural schools could be sustained. We won't be having the standard industrial model of one teacher per class per grade. And maybe that's a good thing, it was kind of an arbitrary arrangement anyway, more for the sake of administration than learning.

Values Exchange. Students able to discuss current interests. Has formal approach to discussions.

2008: software written in New Zealand. A pilot program where students respond to case studies which involve values. Responses are quantitatively collated. Good potential for further research for more academic inclined students.

Uniformly the education industrial complex is not keeping up with the adoption of ICT in the gen pop. Still stuck in the bums-in-seats mentality. This is in part because education is a major economic engine in a community. All the people who run the plant are voters and taxpayers. The old structures persist, not because they are the best model of educational excellence but because they are the source of the best jobs in town. Deans wife works in student services, the presidents cousins husband works in maintainence etc.

Opensource web meeting software. Interesting.

This new platform for allowing people to meet using the internet with free open source software is very exciting!