Hello Harold, Great post, which fits very closely with the ideas on collective learning that we are developing at Glasgow Caledonian University . Have you considered how individual goals may drive this internal and external activities? We have been thinking about the notion of charting as the underpinning mechanism - see our blogpost http://caledonianacademy.blogspot.com/2007/11/collective-learning.html It's particularly interesting how these personal goals may be shared and revised in an ongoing way, and and how the charting patterns themselves may be shared.