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Week One of our Learning 2.0 adventure featured an overview of the characteristics of lifelong learning, and the habits of successful learners. Striking for me was the primacy–in the literature– of the individual learner, and the acknowledgement that the learner will determine his goal, path and process. Our communal exercise stumbled a bit in this regard; the initial pathways were narrow and constrained, the starting gaits (not gates) jerky and counterintuitive. I would have liked to have seen more radical trust in the efficacy of the learner, to choose wisely (whether to register or defer, bruit or conceal enrollment) and to proceed appropriately (eschewing labyrinthine launch-pads for a more logical learning sequence). Learning 2.0 embodies interesting tensions; highlighting those tensions is a laudable goal for the professional information navigator.

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