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:::In this rapid adjustment into the "information age", sometimes the students should be training the instructors, and leave the instructor to focus on teaching timeless concepts such as '''critical thinking''', '''research techniques''' and '''team-building'''. If properly utilized and monitored, '''instructors could be "leading the students by example" to prepare them to collaborate in a proactive manner to benefit society, their workplace, and their personal lives'''.
::'''Private Interests'''
:::'''Trying to own a collaborative idea or concept can limit its growthor 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"'''. Many computer program developers have collaborated for decades before the term "cloud computing" became fashionable...