When you take a set of encyclopedias and ask, ‘how do I make this digital?’ you get a Microsoft Encarta CD. When you take the philosophy of an encyclopedia and ask, ‘how does digital change our engagement with this?’ you get Wikipedia.

How does this relate to e-learning?

It strikes me that much of that learning online has a considerable distance to go in terms of realising the potential of ‘electronically enhanced’ learning, that we are ‘reading’ for subjects and supervised by the institution and tutors very much in the style of a Microsoft Encarta CD.

Perhaps a virtual world is the way forward?

Perhaps just as people job share, you could share your learning too?

Perhaps there is more to educational social networking through the likes of Facebook than institutions are willing to accept.

And if you have an e-portfolio of work why not flit from one supplier to another, accumulating micromodules of a unit at a time from wherever you choose and have your aggregated qualification assessed by a third party?