Scalability and Sociability in Online Learning Environments

More bedside reading. David Wiley is the Director of Utah State University's Open Learning Support (OLU). OLU builds on educational materials such as MIT's OpenCourseWare and provides the social interactions necessary for learning to take place. Wiley has just published on his blog the draft of a book chapter on Scalability and Sociability in Online Learning Environments. ".....for learning environments to scale to numbers larger than faculty can control, and still remain necessarily social, we must rely on principles of self-organization to emerge within the group." Also on the bedside table is Wiley's Learning Objects: Difficulties and Opportunities.