Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
The world has become increasingly “flat,†as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1 But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikierâ€: the places that are globally competitive are those that have robust local ecosystems of resources supporting innovation and productiveness.
