All Together Now: "The trend, in other words, is toward what Henry Chesbrough, a business professor at Berkeley, has dubbed “open innovation.” With so many companies investing so much money and energy in innovation, it’s hard for any one of them to consistently outsmart the rest. And technologies are so complex that it’s impractical for a company to gather all the resources it needs under one roof."
Comment: While this article focuses on businesses trends relating to innovation, it's very applicable to learning. Most industries and knowledge fields are so complex that it's impossible for one person (i.e. the instructor) to stay on top of everything. Relying on creating connections with communities, forums, blogs, as well as the existing knowledge base and learning of each learner, helps to create an aggregated vision of developments in a field. Going it alone is difficult in rapidly developing environments.