Disintermediation: The disruption to come for Education 2.0

On the largest of scales, we rarely have the luxury of designing technological systems.  Instead, technologies happen to us – our experience of them being ragged, volatile, turbulent and rife with unexpected interactions.  Tim’s posts about the emerging internet operating system here, and here, describe a great example of this – the winner of that [...]

Education 2.0: The Importance of Ownership

The following is a cross-post of something I wrote for O’Reilly Radar.  Readers of www.readingaboutleading.com will see my cross-posts from O’Reilly two or three days after they are posted there.  For the whole dialogue about Education 2.0, see http://radar.oreilly.com/edu2/ .  O’Reilly’s blog is one of the best forums out there – I recommend a careful [...]