Frances Bell’s Blog

Illich wrote of learning webs as a way of reconfiguring learning around learners goals rather than around curricular goals see http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-illic.htm.

A current conversation on moodle.org on learning webs chimes quite nicely with one we had a few months ago on CABWEB HELP when Jan Visser led a discussion event on “To school, or not to school: is that the question?” , particularly to this thread.

I was particularly struck by this example ?http://www.shef.ac.uk/mirrors/tandem/

I don’t know how it works out in practice but it seems to me to be a good example of Illich’s learning webs, with its use of skill exchange and peer matching.