Just to reference Scott Wilson’s VLE vision:

http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogview?entry=20050125170206

So many ideas brought together – a great vision – a lot seems to be based around open source and social software.

It takes us some much further forward than the type of thing called a VLE at the moment. However, it doesn’t capture (for me) some quite important stuff – interface, MLE, and different tools such as mentioned by Curtis Bonk at the conference yesterday.