MIT World Series: Learning without Barriers / Technology without Borders

This event, at MIT, marked the completion of the MIT-Microsoft iCampus Research Alliance for Educational Technology. The morning of Friday, December 1 2006, speakers focused on the role of technical education in national competitiveness, and on improving technical education in the U.S. and globally. John Seely Brown describes how increasingly pervasive information technology changes the relationship between learners and knowledge, and how this creates significant new opportunities for improving technical education, even as it poses significant new challenges for maintaining U.S. technical preeminence among nations.