Found some interesting information on Josie’s blog about the Learner’s Charter for a personalised learning environment which is a publication from Nesta Futurelab.
There is some excellent discussion here about how things might go if learner’s are given a flexible and personalised learning environment to work with rather than the manager centred systems that we have at the moment. In fact it might be a useful advance if tutors in higher education were allowed the freedom to use their own learning tools rather than being constrained by a central system that fails to do a good job for anybody.
Unfortunately many tutors seem to like the ability of these systems to give some control to the tutor and take it away from the learner. I was at an event last week where a tutor had his students send material to him and he loaded it onto the system. As there is a presentation area available on the system where the students could upload their own material, though it can be difficult to use, I am not sure whether this was censorship or paternalism.
I hope that we can all go with the idea that anything we put out for others to see is work in progress and we welcome supportive evaluation and critique. That is the way I work as I don’t pretend to be an expert in anything but I have some ideas that I would like to investigate and to share with others. Not that anybody reads this blog 
