Fortune favors the bold -- Virgil
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it -- Goethe

Advice on the virtues of being bold goes back at least as far as the Romans. The New Global Student offers a new way to be bold: go global, “get a truly international education,” and reap many benefits in the process. The particular approach which this book advocates is perhaps best summarized by the encouragement the author, Maya Frost, and her husband gave one of their daughters: to “go abroad in high school, consider alternatives when she returned, and pursue her passion in whatever way she chose” (p.83).

Cases increasing, campuses closing; the prospect of a far worse pandemic coming this fall. For many higher education institutions, online learning could be the answer. Is the "swine flu" virus A(H1N1) a Black Swan which will accelerate the adoption of online learning?

A recent listserv discussion prompted me to ask participants to share their opinions/knowledge on what factors enable online programs to become net revenue generators (while avoiding becoming "cash cows"). The discussion has also prompted me to experiment with how various social networking tools can help support that discussion and capture its knowledge in the process.