What I meant to say was that the decision to go ahead with implementing web 2.0 features should be an easy decision. Thumbs up for ajax integration. It is now a matter of how to proceed with this. I apologise if I came off as criticising the .LRN consortium decision-making process. I wasn't, in fact I applaud the direction the consortium is moving in.
I have just completed a focus group with physiology students. They don't really want to migrate to doing their lab reports online. They would prefer to continue using Word and Excel. Perhaps by using ajax stuff I could win them over. It is a huge paradigmn shift for them, in terms of abandoning their trusted tools and migrating to web-based tools. And yes there are a lot of students that "don't get the whole internet thing".
