Educational technology trends 2010 — from xplana.com by Rob Reynolds
We present these trends as broader categories and then point to specific topics within each. We will use these trends guidelines for our daily, weekly, and monthly research over the next six months, and will then issue a revised set of trends for the last half of the year.
From DSC:
One of the topics is “Containerless Education” which states:
Today, learning content is still consumed mostly in container formats — books, courses, LMS platforms, classes, and institutions. Increasingly, however, the notion of content is shifting to smaller, autonomous pieces that can be acquired and reconfigured by the end user in ways that are necessarily independent of traditional educational containers. Just as songs have been disaggregated from albums in the music world, educational content in general will be increasingly disaggregated from its containers in the coming year.
…hmmm….sounds like a Learning Ecosystem.