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I'd be curious to know what Steve Gillmor thinks of the Users Bill of Rights championed by Marc Canter and others.

A discussion of Facebook and Moodle integration is going on in the Moodle forums. The thread. Registration is required, but painless. Then I think you have to join the "Moodle Lounge" course to read or post on the board.

I'll read it more carefully later and may have something to say.

Colleges will no longer be required to deliver at least half their courses on a campus instead of online to qualify for federal student aid.

From the NYT:

That change is expected to be of enormous value to the commercial education industry. Although both for-profit colleges and traditional ones have expanded their Internet and online offerings in recent years, only a few dozen universities are fully Internet-based, and most of them are for-profit ones.

The provision is just one sign of how an industry that once had a dubious reputation has gained new influence, with well-connected friends in the government and many Congressional Republicans sympathetic to their entrepreneurial ethic.