More Emergence Hoo-Ha

I got an email this morning calling my attention to the existence of something called the “Emergent Learning Forum.” I don’t know this group and I don’t know what they mean by “emergent learning”; my previous posts on emergence were in response to articles that have appeared in eLearn and the echoes of them that I have seen in the blogosphere. For the record, I’m quite open to the possibility that the concept of emergence can be used fruitfully to improve our efforts at organizational learning and other forms of knowledge sharing. However, emergence is also a particularly hard concept to wrap one’s head around, and that the conversations about it that I have seen so far haven’t yet gotten to the heart of the idea.