As happens frequently, for me, blogging about a topic makes me think even further about it. So I’m still thinking about learning content and what Apple’s announcement might have to do with it. However, I don’t really have time to write it as a “narrative” (gotta finish this ancillary material; plus, my brother-in-law just arrived in town). So I’ll post my notes as-is, to serve as a placeholder.

(Made easier by Brett Terpstra’s “Indented or Markdown to HTML Unordered List” Ruby script.)

• Don’t call it content
• Access to content
• Allowing students to contribute content
• Higher Ed
• Less about backpack
• Semi-autonomous learning
• Self-learning
• Autodidactic
• Realities of markets
• Sectors
• Creation
• Distribution
• Consumtpion
• But learning is different?
• Material to make you think
• Social media

• Hopes for Moodle 2.0, Sakai 3
• Lifelong learning
• Apple-branded learning management system?

• Not much hope for what it might represent
• Gradebook

• Beyond Numbers template
• Portfolios

• iWeb and beyond
• Online/Offline

• Flexibility
• Updates
• Index and search
• Modular
• Distraction-free learning
• Minisites and encapsulation