In very concise, if not very scientific format, I humbly present my findings:

As you can see, BlueRay really is the cat’s meow, somehow, AppleTV HD rocks, and Comcast bites. Stay tuned for updated studies that include Amazon Unbox and XBox360 Live Marketplace.

Seen in the (very numerous and very lengthy) comments to a recent blog post: I wish I had time to read all the comments, so if someone already mentioned this, then I second it.

Below are some resources on this European-based effort (sadly, I haven’t seen much uptake here in the States): Animated Tutorial Resources: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/LAMS+Tutorials Demo Server (feel free to log in using AAU / alpine): http://demo.lamscommunity.org/lams/index.do LAMS Document Resources: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/ Will Richardson is a high-school teacher turned edublogger and consultant that I had on my Milken Conference panel from 2 years ago. … Here’s a link to his 12-step recipe for building a social learning platform (using Drupal as the technology): http://wt.similibus.org/2008/02/26/recipe-for-a-social-learning-platform-in-drupal-1/ And in the participatory eLearning space, there’s “LearnHub” (all Ajax-y, built on Ruby On Rails; headed by two Toronto-based entrepreneurs with funding by India-based Educomp Solutions Ltd.): http://learnhub.com/about

Covering ideas contained in his upcoming new book as well as some recent publications , JSB offers great insight into how the perfect storm of open software and “web 2.0″ tools of wikis, blogs, and social networking sites are combining to — possibly for the first time ever — drive and make possible the social learning ideas first covered in ” The Social Life of Information .” Of course, a treasure-trove of all-things JSB can be found at his web site, www.johnseelybrown.com .

I’ll have a lot more to say on this new undertaking, but for now here’s a snippet of a company-wide email I recently sent out announcing the launch of Alpine Access University: Team, Over the past four months, I have been working with Chris Carrington, members of the Executive Leadership Team, our current Training Department, and individuals from across the company to craft a vision and plan for Alpine Access University (AAU). … However, thanks to Chris, Rob, and the Board’s visionary leadership, along with what is our greatest asset – Alpine’s human capital – I am confident that Alpine Access University will not only achieve the goals we’ve laid out, but will do so in a way that defines a new type of online corporate university.