Stephen Downes provides an in-depth overview of the Learning and Performance Support Systems (LPSS) program, a new $19 million 5-year initiative at the National Research Council that he will be leading. The objective of the LPSS is “to build a system where individuals can access, and get credit for, learning from any education provider at all, whether from home, the workplace, or at a school.”

Link: http://halfanhour.blogspot.ca/2013/12/learning-and-performance-support-systems.html