Thanks for that reference Grant! I suspect that we could have a discussion about the content of the book after giving it a read. Let's keep that thought on the back burner.
There seems to be more and more movement towards this kind of openness which makes me hopeful there is a real shift going on in higher education.
It brings to mind several conference presentations that I attended a couple of years ago - where the faculty and graduate students presenting were celebrating the fact that they had collaborated(!) on the research they presented. That was a dramatic contrast to my experience as a graduate student (nearly 20 years ago now) where the dominant interaction was to "out-do your colleagues" in a competitive environment that didn't support collaboration.
The Commonwealth of Learning has recently published several other books online related to international and online education. You can read about them and download copies from http://www.col.org/
Laura