When Two Tribes Go To War

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When Two Tribes Go To War
The post addresses divergent approaches to managing institutional technological requirements - one view being the standard instiututional view, the other being the one standards and systems view. Good discussion, but what stood out as insightful was this: "I now wonder whether it might be better to sometimes leave such gaps unfilled. For as ‘Webdunc' recently commented 'To oversimplify; I don't think I've ever heard of a policy for what to do when you pass a peer/colleague/superior/lecturer/student in the street - why do we need one for online social behaviour?'." More...