Explain, which type of learning environment is best suitable for your e-learning course? (week 7)

Well… we have a different kind of course  Our course is about football which is rather practical thing (requires practical skills) therefore our course environment has to be different as well. We can not have only electronic learning environment: practises have to take place with real football. When science gives us haptic-tools (or something like this) then it would be interesting to have only electronic environment, but I'm not sure whether it would be wise considering our goals, tasks and practical character of this course.
But of course: learning environment has to support deeper learning, motivation of students.
I strongly believe that it must allow discussions (dialogue and argumentation). As humans are social beings and learning is social activity - discussion (forum) in electronic environment (our environment is divided: practical environment and electronic environment) is extremely important (in practices discussions and communication takes place anyway).
It is important to support curiosity of learners. Curiosity supports intrinsic motivation.
Of course it would help students if the material would not be statical (just articles to read). Some videos and pictures might do the job here. At the same time you must be careful because to much of videos, sounds, (moving) pictures might disturb the learning.
Learning environment must support achievement of goals and it is very important whether this environment supports assignments we have for our students.
For reflections and tasks we might use blogs. Although I don’t like using blogs in learning too much: first - academic writing disappears and in the universities this is not a mark of quality. Blogging is like writing a diary (very personal) and there is a certain group of people who like to do that. But not most of us. I know that blogging is becoming very popular and it helps to reflect, but still: reflection does not have to be visible to everybody.
But as we have rather practical subject then academic part is not a problem and blogs are easer to follow. So blogs it is.

Some other thoughts:

About the role of facilitator: domain novices don’t have strong domain-specific cognitive schema and therefore they cannot determine which information might help them. Here again the power-questions rises to me. And at the same time it seems to me that self-directed learning can not take place in this stadium (novice) of learning because all the preconditions of self-directed learning are not met.

Organising your own learning - personal learning environment - this was interesting idea. I have never thought about it in systematic way: how to organise my own learning.

Pedagogically neutral software - somehow this troubles me. At one point I think this is not a real problem (different tasks need different approach - Ertmer and Newby’s idea of taxonomy of learning - so there is no problem with neutrality of software. But then again the question of self-directed learning and democracy rises.

For conclusion:
For every task there are professionals in the world. I can brainstorm with them, but environment is not my 'thing'.