Derek's latest posting on Knowledge management , though related to valuing knowledge in organisations, helped cement some thoughts I have been having about the inadequate use of 'knowledge capital' in an elearning framework. Largely, especially in tertiary, there is still a major focus on the transmission model … even the whole 'learning object' cult is really just people spending an awful lot of time and energy working out how to make natty little widgets that will teach somebody else what they know, and in most cases the only use it all makes of the 'intellectual capital' bound up in the learner is to keep a record of which links they clicked on ;-)
Even when real discussion/collaboration/knowledge creation takes place in an elearning context, it is usually zipped up and archived at the end of the course, never to be seen again, unless it is dusted of for research or a conference paper.
Definately lots of potential for the use of the web/blogs/wikis, etc. to really capitilise on knowledge and intellectual capital in an elearnning context!
Now – off to code the killer app that can make it happen!
