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“Developers, developers, developers!” So goes the impassioned chant from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, now immortalized in the annals of internet lore through the magic of YouTube. And why, might you ask, is the CEO of the world’s most powerful Operating System manufacturer so bullish on developers? Simply put, he knows where his bread is buttered. Ballmer realizes that a platform is only as good as the applications which run on it, a reality which is becoming more and more apparent in the mobile space…

Picture this: The world’s top professors streaming lectures online to a network of educators in both virtual and actual classrooms. Local educational institutions then host discussion groups, with online providers organizing virtual equivalents. These two groups would each give students a forum for discussion and debate, leveraging open source text books as they distribute assignments to be collected and evaluated locally. With Professors and vocational specialists providing lectures across various subjects, a robust online catalog is created, allowing these localized providers, or facilitators, to offer all required courses for a standard Vocational Certification, Associates Degree or Bachelors Degree. With clearly defined requirements for graduation, students would then work towards a degree to be granted by the…