The challenge for educators and organizations is not how to integrate or adopt web technologies but rather how do we teach, learn and work in networks. Digital networks have changed all hierarchical relationships.

... and all the methods-in-use we have for designing work, curricula and the processes that accompany them all rely on fundamental assumptions about knowledge, trust and authority being hierarchical.

Yes, networks of people operating on / in a digital infrastructure have and are changing hierarchical relationships. But faced with something new and different, people seem either transfixed by uncertainty or desirous of avoiding all change.