in the age of communities of practices online (seek>sense>share>) an emerging role could be this one: http://www.bottomlineperformance.com/how-we-use-social-media-for-informal-learning/

nice to read all the different opinions. I'm new to twitter and i will to experiment it via this course...

check this: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/free_download/9780262013369%20_Hanging_Out.pdf it's about researches about children and teens learning in our age. The researches were supervised by Mizuko ito.

i agree Ken. Lectures should feed students with the what i call "the energy of the desire to know" coming from the professor or lecturer...very few are able to give this and through my studies i still hold inside that energy whenever i met chaps with that energy inside...Otherwise i would move to hands on, cooperative learning, learning by doing, problem based learning, mooc and the rest...

very interesting. Thank you. I'm always curious to see what is happening at the level of the EU about it..