The operating principles of the New Paradigm, shared by the educator and student, are as follows:

1. Environment of Trust vs. External Control

3. Systemic Thinking vs. Lineal Thinking

4. Compassion vs. Judgment

6. Interdisciplinary relationships vs. silos

The Library of Alexandria Supercourse is an example of how multi-media virtual knowledge forums and leadership can expand the value–added of the educator towards facilitating the development of the student’s creativity and innovation. 

Multi-media virtual knowledge forums have the potential, especially with the aid of semantic based search engines, to free the educator’s time from undertaking course material preparation to perform roles as mentor and leadership. Ron LaPorte’s comments: “It seems to me that with the additional time available educators can perform other very important roles as mentor and more in a leadership capability.  Thus with the high tech, high touch relationship approach it will be  easier to build and maintain a connection  with students half a world away.  Also, you are able to touch students outside the classroom seeing, and also "keep in touch" as they move on through their careers.  The teacher can stay on as an anchor to the students and in many ways a life savior to the student” The educator then can stay on as an ‘anchor’ for the students helping them to be more resourceful due to their connectivity.

The Library of Alexandria Supercourse as a “space to relearn, evolve, and adapt” (Sauer, 2009) is the virtual space that enables interaction between real people. We are all interconnected including, for example a student in Kansas with a Nobel Prize winner presenting at BioVision 2010 in Alexandria. In this cyberspace, the knowledge of humanity is becoming malleable and fluid. Now through associations new knowledge will be created from the generative process in the mind of a creative person exposed to new nuggets of knowledge as well as in the generative dialogue, enabled by the Library of Alexandria Supercourse, between creative people. 

This high technology world and its tools hold a promise to remove certain traditional industrial revolution practices or reduce time burdens such as lecture preparation, allowing educators the time to tailor the education to individual students possibly through the use of new tools. Today, graduate mentorship produces much more highly trained and skilled students than classroom education. Forums like the Library of Alexandria Supercourse and other tools offered by high technology may enable graduate style mentorship at more elementary levels of education. The vision presented is that of the educator as a mentor, a leader, and a facilitator of innovation that is highly ethical and relevant to the community.