Staff at Cornell and Bates (both in the US) are in the early stages of a collaborative project, looking into how they might provide a seamlessly integrated knowledge environment (IKE) for their students, alumni, academic and professional staff, and other constituencies of their respective institutions.
In particular, the project aims to:
“Envision, identify, and promote integrated online environments for higher education that: simplify knowledge creation, storage, organisation, publishing, collaboration, outreach, and access, beyond the classroom, and across media and devices.”
The IKE project site is hosted on Google Sites. They are using a blog, del.icio.us tag, wiki and other ’social software’ to invite input from anyone who shows an interest — hey, it could be you!