I'm going to be a huge pain and respond to several threads in one message and perhaps tie a grand old knot...

John Hibbs writes:
"What Phil mentions is the supposition that my seven year old grandson will be the same kind of student as was his mother, grandfather, and great grandmother. He won't be."

... Nice point & I've got to agree
And there is a connection between that supposition (focusing on students) and the piece James Morrison references:
"Rising Stars in Virtual Education: A Peek into 2010". James Shimabukuro builds an rich and imaginative world. Yet this world is fantiful, not because of the technology described, but because the course in which his characters engage is "English 100". Shimabukuro builds a supposition about stucture (focusing on the content and context of future courses)...

Interdisciplinary, problem solving learning adventures is the change in learning environments that we seem to need to speak about --carefully, perhaps loudly....

Lastly, Peter Roosen-Runge writes"there is a unifying vision at work right now in the universities but it is an administrative vision."
Peter -- I'm working to imagine an alternative...
Anyone else/everyone else?

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/InfoSes11.htm