Two things – first lets not get overhung up on the technology – the point is that the use of blogs does potentially add a little subversion in the system – but what we are really looking for is to free or subvert the whole system of e-learning and we …

Two things – first lets not get overhung up on th technology – the point is that the use of blogs does potentially add a little subversion in the system – but what we are really looking for is to free or subvert the whole system of e-learning and we n…

Two things – first lets not get overhung up on th technology – the point is that the use of blogs does potentially add a little subversion in the system – but what we are really looking for is to free or subvert the whole system of e-learning and we need to extend the idea of blogging (in terms of individual expression and creativity – across the whole ed-tech range of applications.

Secondly – what I think is missing from Scott’s ideas, although maybe is implicit – is not just that students may be enrolled on one or two or three modules and courses – but that they may combine a formal learning programme with self directed or supported learning from a wide range of different sources including the workplace (which once more may or may not be structured learning) or excternal web sites, bulletin boards, disucssion lists, video and other conferences etc.

This means we need to look again at tools which can allow leaners to yes aggregate their learning experince but at the same time reflect and structure those experiences – that is what will lay at the heart of any Personal Learning environment. Somewhere else Scott says this might look a bit like iTunes (and he makes the excellent throw away remark that we have overemphsised reliance on on-line environments – a future application should work on and off line).

I reckon this would be pretty different form anything we have got at the moment and would cots a lot to build. I reckon it should be a biggggg Open Source project – the firsts tage to agree the educational design.

Anyone any ideas how to organise (not manage!) this?