Christopher D. Sessums, "Taking back the university"
Great article on VE:

"What I am calling a new pedagogy is what George Siemens calls Connectivism and Stephen Downes calls E-learning 2.0. This new pedagogy is based on interactivity, on humans networking, in a usable, relevant environment where students accept more responsibility for their own learning. This new learning ecology provides more freedom and is more liberating in many respects, but with this freedom comes more responsibility, more transparency, more accountability for both learners and educators/academics."

elgg.net/csessums/weblog/4623.html