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:::The youth are more comfortable and adaptable with on-line collaboration. Unfortunately, if instructors fail to embrace newer technologies, they may impede the growth of the students. If properly utilized and monitored, '''instructors could be "leading the students by example" to prepare them to collaborate in a proactive manner and enforcing the classic concepts such as "critical thinking", "research", and "interpretation"'''.
::'''Private Interests'''
:::'''Trying to own a collaborative idea or concept can limit its growth or success'''. When people mention that I should copyright the "/Guide on the Side/" Computer Lab resource, I immediately respond, ''"that would immediately destroy what I have created"''. I adopt the attitude, "what you give usually will come back ten-fold". Instead of limiting that resource only to the Westminster Computer Lab, it should be freely available for the World to benefit. Many private interests are trying to compete to control (what I consider) to be the next big wave which is online storage and document manipulation. Free software proponents such as '''Richard Stallman''' see the industry term '''"cloud computing"''' as nothing more than a '''"marketing gimmick"''' ('''icloud''' was recently released from Apple). Many computer program developers have collaborated for decades decade<u>'''s'''</u> before the term "cloud computing" became fashionable...
