EdTechPost: E-Learning and Sustainability - Report by Graham Attwell:
E-Learning and Sustainability - Report by Graham Attwell

http://www.ossite.org/Members/GrahamAttwell/
sustainibility/attach/sustainibility4.doc

"I am kind of surprised this hadn't been posted on yet as it makes such extensive reference to ideas being promoted in ed tech blogs, but I couldn't see any references so far. This report by Graham Attwell "commissioned by the University of Bremen as part of its contribution to The European Commission Socrates supported Lefo Learning folders project" could well be considered a survey of most of the discussions I have seen unfolding both in ed tech blogs and other forums for the past 2 years, but wrapped in the context of 'sustainability.' Some of it won't seem that new to those already immersed in the discussion, but taken as a whole it seems a valueable report and a bit of a summation of a seemingly widespread call to shift directions in the elearning world."

Thanks to Scott Leslie and also Stephen Downes for their kind comments on my paper.

I'd say Scott's comments are pretty fair. The sustainability angle came in because that was what I was commissioned to write - but having said that I think it is a fairly useful approach. I want to see sustainable innovation - not vast expenditure on sterile and uninteresting approaches to e-learning. I was also trying to bring some of the debates form the tech blogs etc to a wider European audience involved in innovation in learning - though I fear the length may have put many of them off.

Stephen Downes is right to say that it is in need of an edit (afraid it is still first draft - and when it comes to editing I always seem to be able to find something more important to do!). I am reworking much of the material as a series of seven shorter papers, designed mainly as a resource for students learning about e-learning. I will post the url here shortly for access to that lot.