There is much discussion out there in the bloggersphere and at conferences on eLearning that the VLE is dead and the future lies with PLEs. I have been looking at ways to aggregate the various learning activities I do each evening - using twitter, blogs etc.

What would be very useful on It's Learning would be to have a partially pre-populated learning page to act as a stimulus and prompt for learning. Students visit the page which is suitable for their year group and find there a small number of interesting web links that might explore. They can then also add their own links and perhaps add RSS feeds there too. Each week a student might return to this page to explore some more and add to their learning network. The technology already exists for this - it is very similar to an eportfolio but with stuff already there rather than a blank page. What would be needed would be another tab for this and ways to edit and manage it.