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Ben Werdmuller, David Tosh

I have great respect for Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh. They are doing with Elgg what many of us are talking about in theory...giving a "proof of concept" to my work with connectivism and Stephen's work with connective knowledge. In my view, the future of learning looks much more like elgg than it does like Blackboard (though they have taken the safe (intelligent) approach and sought integration with tools like webct)

Two recent announcements of their activities: elgg spaces ("you get your own social networking system for learning with blogs, podcasting, fine-grained access controls, and everything you've come to expect from one of the world's fastest growing open source e-learning products - instantly") and Ben's book project: The internet is people. Great stuff.