Ron Abel references education as a institution (Innovation, Adoption and learning impact: Creating the future of IT)in his response to the Spelling’s Report and he points out the challenges of a social system that exists because of its function to preserve heritage and stability, while faced with ongoing change. Abel argues that “When society exerts a new pressure, such as increased emphasis on and revenues for research, the higher education system responds in a way that considers its core values and mission. And so it will be with increasing pressures for accountability.” Technology in formal education is a target for change, because it changes so often; a in its internet-based persona, it is a new addition to higher education. The Internet only began to be accessible to almost all faculty and students in the mid- to late 1990’s.So it has only been 10 years since we really have dealt with funding of technology and supportive infrastructure, much less what we should be using if for. Abel argues that we must not just how we do what we are doing, but change the very thing we are doing. Although Ablel digresses into a discussion of standards (as per the IMS project, a membership-driven organization with a small degree of member diversity, due to the expense of membership), he does raise issues that should be considered when planning strategically. Learning theory, social network analysis, informal and non-formal learning, learner needs and preferences, and the ongoing expectation by educational consumers that their will be some form of instruction should be a starting place for considering how we intend to use, develop, support, build, retire, alter, evaluate technology for learning. See some materials that are attempting to support efforts in this direction.