Hi Carrie,

The dichotomy is in ownership… and really not quite a dichotomy as their is the possibility of third party ownership as well. In a VLE the landscape is controlled by the insitution, there are often many things that an instructor is incapable or directly ‘not allowed’ to do due to admistrative concerns of pedagogy, politics or security. The linear nature of our course page, for instance, almost imperceptibly (or not) forces into this ‘week by week’ linear approach to knowledge creation…

There are defintely advantages to this in a introductory course, as it can be very difficult to learn new ways of building knowledge, new platforms and take over ownership of your learning at the same time… a problem that intimidated many in the CCK08 course.

I didn’t quite spell this out in my post… and probably should have. thanks for teasing that idea out