Our Big Idea: Open Social Learning

openstudy.com is a Good Project. I was aiming to write a software like this for open learning web system. Was writing this system complex? it doesn't seem to be a very complex system. what technology did you used in writing it?
If i plan to do a clone of this system in my own native language Arabic would you be interested to add internationalization and support other languages? but surprisingly that was exactly what i was thinking to do and now the Idea is here.

There is open issue screaming for attention. That issue is jobs. Where are the jobs? Obviously, they are going to two destinations: 1) Offshore, or 2) Cheap entry level third world workers migrating into the US primarily India and Communist China.

Barely half of the college graduates since 2006 have been able to locate fulltime employment. US STEM workers all across the US are being displaced by third world workers coming into the US under fraudulent claims of a labor shortage. These workers are coming into the US under a variety of work visas including the H1B visa, the L1 visa, the OPT visa, the B1 visa, and countless other visas.

The net result is the employment of US workers is in a nosedive, and US students know this. Students know that once they get a college degree, that it is unlikely that they will be able to find a job.

Corporations are not hiring US workers, and politicians like Barack Obama are doing the bidding of the corporations in exchange for massive corporate campaign contributions.

But we need to exhort the private enterprises that produce the educational games to get with the marketing. Sound the horn. Making a big push for government grants will just create dependence on the grants process and politicize both the production and the consumption and the content of these tools for learning. There is already too much political interference in the education of our children.

Just another project to add to the mix mostly targeting Math skills, but it already extends further: http://www.khanacademy.org/

IF your openstudy.com web site is a success, and you say it would be only 0.01 percent of the fed budget to do it, and students already love it, then do what Zuckerman did and instead of hitting up a one-size-fits-all politically compromised source for funds, go get Venture Capital. That's because I want it to succeed. If you're afraid of capital wanting to control it, then think of the horror of centralized political control.

I like it. Don't turn it into another Education Department initiative. Look at the pathetic state of our education product. Let's do better.