I was reading this on the train on the way home tonight and felt I have to share it – from the Leonardo daVinci project in Europe, the results of their Thematic Monitoring of eLearning Projects (downloadable as a PDF file)
Although the report is based around the activities of some 150 relevant projects in the vocational education sector, the findings should be of relevance and interest to anyone involved in eLearning.
The study highlights that eLearning-related approaches have so far been too technology and/or media oriented; the recommendations point out that a strong focus on learning, on the learner and on teachers/trainers is necessary.
I’ve included some highlighted quotes from the paper in the extended entry below.

A number of discussions going on around theplace at the moment about this topic – (see Derek Chirnside’s Blog). Seems there’s a lot of momentum being created in this direction.
I came across this link this morning which takes you to a list of more than a dozen articles related to the development of a semantic web – http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2004/1/

Having invested a large amount of my time last year (and some this year) in putting together an eLearning Framework discussion document for the Ministry of Education, I was interested to come across this paper today, (E-Learning Strategies – Embrace or Eschew?) which asks a fundamental question – do we need one?
The author asks, quite rightly, With all the discussions happening in Britain (and just beginning in Canada) about e-learning strategies, it seems relevant to step back for a second and ask whether we need one at all, to ask whether “e-learning [is] really so special and different from what we know about pedagogy and student learning that, instead of viewing it as an integral part of a learning and teaching strategy, it requires a special strategy all of its own?”
There is a balanced list here of the pros and cons of having a separate eLearning Strategy – worth a read.
From my own perspective, I avoided using the word ‘strategy’ in the work I did, preferring instead to use the more embrasive notion of a “Framework”, the idea being that, at present we need a Framework that enables us to understand the relationship between the various (and often competing) dimensions of eLearning.
I’d have to say that philisophically I’d agree with the idea that there is a built-in redundancy in an eLearning Strategy, but until all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, a framework will serve us well (for all the “pro” reasons listed in this article).