Read the post - and the comments - with interest, until I came upon Harold's point #1: Learning is ... an innate natural ability. The truth of the matter is, that as an instructional designer - or e-learning developer; whatever you want to call me/our profession - I have absolutely no control over learning. Learning happens inside/within the learner (whom we used to call student). All I can do is remove obstacles to learning, and present materials in such a way as to make the student want to learn. I can promote understanding, I can present in a multitude of ways to accommodate different learning styles, but what the student learns, or whether she learns at all, is out of my hands. Call me old-fashioned, but I wish we'd all go back to talking about "teaching" or "instructing" or "facilitating" -- anything but learning.