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Hey Dan, I’ve read your aitlcre and got myself to think about it. I study business management in the São Paulo Business School(FGV) in Brazil. I guess the way to look at the question is separating it in 3 institutions.- Students- Professors- Schools and Government agencies focused on educationI agree with your model but I see there’s something missing and I can’t tell where. I guess in the links between those 3.Here in Brazil, my school is one of the leaders in innovation in terms of learning. At least I think it is, or they propose themselfs to it. Last year, they’ve recreated the whole undergrad course and added two straightforward practical subjects. One called Local Organization Project and the other National Organization Project. In those, the students should choose a company and basically make a consultancy for it. In theory it looks good, satisfies the practical side you said above.The problem was that no student was motivated by it, because the valuation method was exactly like regular subjects(which was required by school and the minister of education to have formal tests). The companies themselves were also not very motivated by our work. They wouldn’t share the info we needed and we had to deliver formal reports on that.I think it is too much to write here but to summarize:The idea was good but it was currupted by the old system and it had no ways of fighting it.getting back to that triad I mentioned above, i insist that the problem is linking the 3 elements.A month ago I’ve created a collaborative enviroment for all my collegues to contribute with reports, texts and useful material for our classes. It’s my blog. As I started it, the Students’ Union supported it, every student said it was a great idead but no one contributed. And it didn’t take long for the school to contact me and ask me to remove all the reports I had, because of ethical affairs.My big point is: the link between Students, Professors and Schools is broken. The School wants to take all the merit for everyting the students do, but they are lightyears behind. The professors are enslaved to the school’s method and even trying to innovate, they can’t for not only the school but the ministry of education demands them to be formal. And the students are not that good in the picture either. They don’t fight for change. They just absorv what professors tell them to do.I’m sorry if I sound a bit confused but it is so many things to put on that I need to squeeze it to put it as a comment here.