with link to the video. Sort of a primer, but it's Steven.

Overview

Starts to move elearning away from learning objects and modules and towards PLEs

Moving beyond learning objects, where do we go next?

Wesch. "As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able."

While well worth reading and citing, there isn't much new in this article. It's solid anthropological principles and understanding applied to teaching and learning.

Martin Weller. Students form social groups to study and learn, yet the typical IMS doesn't support this. Better, web 2.0 tools that let students form and work in social groups.

John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or