But there is no user demand for limited access rights and demands that they prove who they are. Moreover, there needs to be some recognition that user data, including personal information and access information, is in a certain sense the property of the user.

If we really want to talk about "personal learning environments", we should be very explicit about our assumptions on how the overall circumstances are (very likely) developing and what kind of interventions remain possible under these emerging conditions.

If we really want to talk about "personal learning environments", we should be very explicit about our assumptions on how the overall circumstances are (very likely) developing and what kind of interventions remain possible under these emerging conditions.

The topic of personal identity - and therefore, learner identity (though not everyone considers the latter to be a subset of the former, which is a problem) continues to increase in importance in educational technology circles. But what will a Learner Identity Management Framework (LIMF) look like?

I do not mean this in a literal sense, but to delude us into believing that people can authentically explore deeper questions within the confines of a system that imposes numerous sets of control and limitations and time, place, thought, and creativity.

The author has surveyed educational technologists who gained tenure between 1999 and 2004 to determine where they published. We seem to have two communities at work, those who seek to publish their work on the Interweb and those who seek the established route or peer reviewed publication.

Although it remains to be seen how Congress will react to his proposed cost cutting measures in education (a decrease of $3.5 billion, or 5.5%, from 2006 funding), many of the major sources used to fund ELL programs may receive the same amount of funding as in 2006.

If we really want to talk about "personal learning environments", we should be very explicit about our assumptions on how the overall circumstances are (very likely) developing and what kind of interventions remain possible under these emerging conditions.