Category Archives: Ideas

Domain architecture (redux)

By Jay Collier | Published: November 19, 2009
Here is my update to our . I’ve added realms of online communication to the map. See, also, how this relates to .
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Bates and the Social Web

By Jay Collier | Published: October 30, 2009
Yours, Mine, and Ours – Redux The World Wide Web was conceived, from the start, as a social medium: as a space for virtual collaboration. Although it was dominated, during its early years, by the one-to-many broadcast model which preceded it, the Web has been evolving toward its potential as a social space for meaningful interaction.
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One Bates, many journeys

By Jay Collier | Published: September 1, 2009
As we prepare to release our new Home site — which presents the essence of Bates’ approach to liberal arts and sciences education — I’m sharing the current draft of a vision paper on ways such an education might be expanded through online collaboration. It’s 12-pages long, so here is a PDF version (2.1 MB download). [...]
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The next phase: Home Site 4

By Jay Collier | Published: December 19, 2008
Working on day-to-day projects, it’s easy to forget the reason why we’re doing this work: to discover, encourage, and grow the relationships which best support Bates’ approach to learning. That means every phase of online engagement is part of the greater whole: bringing to campus those students, faculty, and staff who can benefit most from this environment supporting [...]
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