Over at SiT Greg Hanek posts some comments on my Extreme Learning thoughttrain which prompted this response of mine.

That exchange of ideas and opinions is an excellent example of collaborative learning in action. I can certainly learn a lot from experts in a particular domain and I'm very grateful to Greg for taking the time to give this feedback.

As I said in a my response I'm not trying to suggest that XL is something entirely new. I am, perhaps, guilty of renaming something that is already well known in the educational domain. And, of course, I have experimented with collaborative/peer-supported learning to augment my teaching.

There may, however, be some aspects of Extreme Programming - XP - that could be applied to collaborative learning and it's this aspect I'd like to explore in XL. It's entirely possible, OTOH, that there are lessons to be learnt by the XP practitoners from the education domain. Not forgetting the role new technology may play in all of this.

David also pitches in with a follow up to Greg's post and it is this phenomenon of mutual help and advice that leaves me to believe that e-mediated learning has a bright and rosy future.

Don Ledingham has also expressed support for this idea.

Thanks guys!