Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Notes for ALT-C 2005: You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!

Sal Cooke and Stephen Downes shook up the attendees at the opening plenary session at ALT-C by tossing out critical comments (constructively so) about the state and nature of implementation and collaboration in e-learning. Stephen went on to comment how the nature of collaboration might even be "misguided," i.e. do things that do not normally go together need to be forced to do so? Great question.

This begs the question: what should be the parameters for collaboration?

How do we know when two great "tastes" go together?

Intellectualizing about what should go together is fun, but limited. Putting ideas to the test, conjoining differing ideas, is also fun but I guess it's really a pragmatic issue. Maybe even a matter of taste.

Oleg Liber provided another keen statement in his plenary address regarding Architecture and Infrastructure: Don't leave design to the techies. Amen, Oleg, amen!

more to follow soon...