Brian Lamb offers a model of content publishing representative of how I think our educational models should move forward: "Content is created in whatever environment the author feels most comfortable with -- so long as it generates full RSS feeds. Content is then syndicated, maybe remixed with other feeds, and then republished wherever the readers are, in as many places as is desirable."
The challenge with the distributed content model (the notion that educational content comes to the learner's space, rather than the learner coming to a space decided by the educational facility) is that it runs against the in-grained assumptions of our value point in higher education or corporate environments. Conversations around content (which leads to greater understanding of the content) is where we need to invest our time. But the most expensive aspect of education and training currently rests in creating and distributing content (from instructional design, to content development, to content presentation). Conversation and dialogue - where the real learning happens - is treated as an after thought. What Brian suggests with distributed content syndication and publishing doesn't address the challenge of moving from content to conversation/connections, but it creates the space in which it can happen more readily than our current model.