The dispute pitting digital platforms like Google and Facebook against news providers may appear to have little to do with online learning, but the same sort of issues surface in education, with some of the same inherent risks. And as this column points out, one major risk is that these companies are all in rough agreement that the hyperlink to external sources should be abolished, or at the very least, downgraded. It's not hard to imagine educational institutions being happier in a non-hyperlinked walled garden - they're almost there already. But we need to be able to link and network with each other; otherwise we as a society cannot learn. And that truly would be the end. Via Kottke.
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