Read/Write Web again offers some relevant perspectives on what might be called E-Learning (t d f) 2.0. The obvious decisive aspect is the move from institution (was VLE - virtual learning environment like Blackboard and Moodle) to learner-centric environments (ePortfolios).

e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know: “One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning.

Only recently I started my quest into the area of ePortfolios. That topic seems to be very hot and lots of different religions emerged in a short period of time. The day after my initial post on that topic I received Serge Ravet’s, from EifEL, position paper: For an ePortfolio enabled architecture. Aside from the architectural aspects his credo is: “[...] providing a pathway for innovation and standardization, keeping the power of free personalized expression and interoperability.”

Serge Ravet is raising a lot of relevant topics that are densely coupled with the notion of ePortfolios.

I spent the last 24 hours (subtract sleeping from that) with first watching very impressive Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “unleashing” the facebook OS then aside from my daily business investigating into standards for e-portfolio applications (helpful node Scott Wilson). So what’s the connection you might ask. Well while I was browsing the specs from IMS yesterday Zuckerberg’s video popped up many times in front of my virtual eye
So what’s at stake in the e-portfolio business?

We just released FCS 2.6.2 here are some change notes:

Bigger Feats:
- platform cloning functionality (contents, structure, usergroups)
- RSS - token based for private RSS-feeds with very high security and different permission depending on right set (enterprise ready)
- ajax comments with the surrounding changes (flat option, etc)
- tinyMCE editor integration with all surrounding improvements (edit include, etc)
- edit include as an include option (fantastic thing -never seen this before in any app!)
- session keep alive
- ajax for boxes - open/close doesnt reload page (if available)
- multiple set permissions in a folder (new folder action)
- padmin - permissions interface redesigned, more self-explaining now

Smaller feats:
- unpublished versoins have a date now, so you can see when you created/edited it
- already read entries in the latest changes are displayed in grey
- search - filter by language and filter by unread facts only
- previous/next for folders optimised and new interface (top placed)
- new shortcut creation form, more advanced, searchable, etc
- manual edit stylesheet mode in padmin

Big jump in terms of user expierience.