Since you asked - no I have not finished for the holidays. Cance would be a fine thing. In fact I have just got back from yet another round of meetings - OECD, Jisc and the rest.

The meeting of the JISC e-learning programme team focused on communications and dissemination. JISC Infonet people were invited. I have to admit I did not realize there was a separate JISC Infonet web site.

And it's pretty good. What interests me is the problems in putting together structured ' information packs' on the web. In truth these are little different from any other form of learning materials. And guess what, most e-learning projects are pretty bad at it.

Any way the Infonet folks have developed an 'Info pack' approach which I think works quite well. they have just released a useful resource on e-portfolios (and I am not just saying that because they cite my blog in the introduction!). Interestingly it is not dissimilar to the approaches followed by the excellent National Guidance Research Forum web site. Both use the Plone Content Management System. However NGRF have gone further in attempting to experiment with integrating blogs as discussion systems in the site. Click here to see their shared web logs. they are also integrating bookmarking and citation based systems into their resources. I am convinced this is the right way to go - it is perfectly possible now to build very rich learning resources using a CMS and social software.

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