Mike Mathews (my colleague at SunGard Higher Education) has asked "What if Steve Jobs had been an educator." In his paper, Mike uses the now familiar applications based on the “Global Positioning System” (GPS) technology as a metaphor for imagining an “Educational Positioning System” (EPS) enabling a suite of integrated technologies and massively interconnected data that would help deliver many benefits that are easy to imagine in analogy to the GPS. I've been arguing that many of these same benefits would accrue to the"Education Leadership Commons" described in"Adaptive Leadership for the Completions Priority: Establishing an Education Leadership Commons." Mike, I, and others are working to create the ELC from an adaptive economic governance model to make the current completions marketplace more portable, transparent, productive, and mutually affordable and beneficial to education providers and their external investors, especially to their students. We want the completions marketplace to feature a rich set of apps and data based on a universally accessible Educational Positioning System.
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