Some scholars will call the phrase community lyceum an oxymoron. Still, it is my hope that this Web site will overcome this view by illustrating that all stakeholders in our community can share the stage. The boundary between an educator and a learner has always been a little blurry.
All educators are ardent learners, and all learners are partially self-taught.
The current pedagogical shift presents a difference of degree, not a difference of kind. The ability to distribute learning across time, place, media, and instructors is not an especially new idea, but in this highly networked information age, the potential advantages to learners have never been greater. When the term information architecture is used in reference to instructional design, it simply means the subtle art of finding aesthetic balance between the information demands of the subject, the objectives of the curriculum, and the all-important needs of the student.