Great comments by Sebastian Fiedler:
"What if...we start from the assumption that people in most industrial and post-industrial societies...
- increasingly live in abundance of affordable and accessible networked human and informational resources of all kinds...
- have to live with growing levels of dis-continuity, uncertainty and individual risk taking in their attempts to live a meaningful life...
- have to integrate and cope with periods of self-, un-, part-time- and traditional (full) employment...
- have to make their own choices and take responsibility for interpreting what is going on around them...
then, does most of mainstream "educational technology" that we see in higher education today make any sense?"