Robin Wilensky's Public Library

There is a strong belief on the part of many universities that an Academic  ePortfolio would provide a great deal more useful
information to registrars  and those that make the decisions for student admittance

undergraduate programs

admittance  to

reflection

reflection

reflection

reflection

reflection

reflection process

self assessment

self esteem and self-confidence

goals for their learning

authorized to make decisions about will be evaluated

more r    ecog

ecognitio

personal learning record.

direction for career planning.

feedback from teachers and peers

showcasing strengths

"It's flexible,"

"The key point is that it's a very adaptable framework for the issues we deal with today."

The Constitution "is brief,"

"It was not trying to solve all the issues."

One thing not anticipated by the framers was the formation of political parties,

The idea was that virtuous men would set aside their interests for the general good.

freedom of choice and liberty.

created a mechanism for dealing with the issues that would arise."

Historians generally support the legend

The stock market rallied during the dot-com bubble for good reason: everyone and their grandma was excited about Internet based companies. The overall investor’s belief was optimistic and this fueled a multi-year rally that had seemingly endless momentum. But as we just learned, the fundamentals were garbage and when the momentum died, the party was over and the stock market crashed.

The optimism for the Dot-com bubble was supported by the belief that internet business was somehow going to instantly take off and going to retail stores would be a thing of the past. Huge issues such as customers having to pay heavy shipping fees were regarded as not important, and the stock market rallied while believing that we’d all be buying our groceries online and ordering our pizza from a .com site. The problem was that none of this was actually occurring, and it was really just wishful thinking since most companies had no realistic business model to get these society changing ideas off the ground.

what trends do we see today that appear to have their roots in the dot.com boom and bust?

attitude to entrepreneurship

ignore new entrants into your market at your peril.

open innovation, partnering

get started, go global

The move to online commerce now seems a foregone conclusion, to the benefit of both previously established players and new entrants into the market. The pure online play versus clicks-and-bricks debate seems simplistic – both won. Our companies, and more and more of us as individuals, are a part of the dot.com revolution. What was hype in 2000 now seems commonplace – it just took a few years longer than expected to be realised.