Having extolled the virtues of sharing, my blog has been void of any further contributions. I'm sorry about that and aim to post a few entries in the coming week, especially as I prepare for the
Educause conference in Dallas. At the very least I should elaborate soon on my abstract for my
poster session on Wednesday evening.
In the UK there's been a lot of discussion and debate around the notion of
personal(ised) learning environments (PLEs for short), with further funding available from the JISC in their
latest call (04/06 Capital Programme) - see e.g. e-learning strand Call III. All this has raised fundamental questions about the nature of learning as individuals and within communities, let alone what this means in terms of software systems. It can be a heady and contentious mix and in all of this I wonder what about the role of teaching, guidance and so on? Is it being devalued? So here I'm going to reflect on my brief experience with an online venture where personal spaces and community were closely connected, with occasional pauses to refer to learning environments.
