Learning and experience

Learning is a powerful concept. When you look at the world and your life through the optics of "learning", most of what you do, has to do with learning in some sense. Your life experiences are, what you learn from. Forming and changing habits show you that you learn.
I was part of the late nineties and early 2000 wave of "e-learning" - and the learning from that era was: do not copy the centuries old school system onto computer media.
I was also present when some of the first commercial groupware tools emerged in the late eighties and early nineties. The learning from that period was: There's a lot of learning going on - where it is not formalized and structured by organizations.
Social Media, Web2.0 and learning - in my opinion - is about learning to empower people, by learning to grasp - and make good use of - the informal and unstructured ways of learning.
The pivotal point in this is - how do we convince companies and organizations, that the knowledge and the learning that is facilitated through these social computer media tools, is not best served by being totally controlled by management, and centralized principles. It is the setting free the practices by the tools, which ensures the learning.

I say this because in my opinion the really interesting "spot of interest" is not the confrontation of technology driven and the individual and social learning, but the confrontation between a top-down organizational point of view, and a bottom-up social and individual point of view.
I have often used the term "bottom-up knowledge management" - which is to say the management of knowledge and learning, is perhaps better served by letting it be controlled by those who learn, and not by those who (are supposed to/used to) teach.

I can go on forever. Looking forward to the conversation.