Joan – much appreciate the links. It makes a lot of sense to me to use Elgg as part of a collaborative learning experience as you’ve described. I was thinking more in the context of how I would use it for my own learning? Or in a corporate learning context? Again, makes sense for learner collaboration – but I’ve not see much use for on-going personal learning.

Again, I may be missing something. Hopefully Harold can shed light at TK2007.

Elgg’s main premise is that the learner is the centre of everything and decides what is important. There are no course or program boxes that learners have to “go in”. Elgg is a good tool for CoP’s because you can have “frends”. Elgg is not a course management system, because there are no courses. For educational settings, I would suggest Elgg for informal learning and giving a sense of continuity outside the construct of the course and Moodle (which integrates well) for the individual courses.

We can discuss this at TK2007 if you like.

BTW, a lot of people are turned off Elgg until they actually see it action. Not sure why.