Most papers written by university students are seen by two people: the student and her TA. I think this should change radically: the default should be that all student work is published to the web. This would give students output to point their friends and family to; it would encourage students to take more pride in their written work; and it would promote discourse about class subjects among students who could read each other’s work.
The technology is there. The students are more than talented and diligent enough that we should have faith in them and their writing. How could universal web publication be made to happen?
