14. Orchestration vs aggregation Orchestrating technologies Institutional VLEs, CMS/LMS and portals, giving coherent access to learning resources Large-scale educational intentions Course or module as base unit Focus on purposes of the designer/curriculum Top-down management Self-regulated system Aggregating technologies Feeds, aggregators, drawing on web services RLOs, widgets and applets Small-scale learning outcomes Object or activity as base unit Focus on immediate needs of user/learner Modularity, reusability and interoperability Self-organising system
15. Web 2.0 knowledge practices refuse any final order or finished curriculum. They pass on a fragment of sense (e.g. a tag) to future users, leaving them with the task of making new sense in a new context.