E-Learning: Do We Need a Factory University to Help Us Learn?

E-learning 2.0 By Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada

"E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities.
And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0." (excerpt)

A fantastic read that discusses the most democratic, connected, and engaged process of learning that has become not a "technical revolution, but a social one."

Here's the link:

http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1