We have to study this case study, so I thought I’d better put in some notes on it.

It’s a very first-world view of learning without boundaries as it requires a huge amount of technology, infrastructure and technical support.

I think it’s the only one of the case studies to pick up on the use of MP3 players and podcasts.

It does seem to get very over-excited about new technology. It appears that the university of the future will have dumped every previous technology. We’ll never read a book, write a word or see a printed piece of paper again. Everything we do will be in our e-portfolio and available to the university authorities. We’ll spend our day from the time we get up to the time we’re asleep linked in with university technology.

I think that this case study, like many of them, glosses over the problems of PDAs. Particularly how difficult it is to input substantial amounts of text, the need for frequent upgrades, the implications if you lose a gadget which contains all your information, the problems if everyone has a different model…