What is fascinating to watch — and good news for learning — is how the network laws themselves are forcing unbundling of “hairballs”, as the network scientists have called them. The Tina Fey example shows it happening to media. I’ll bet my moose hat that unbundling will happen soon for education.

I notice, for example this morning, that one of Tina Fey’s fan websites is sending visitors to this post. SEO (search engine optimization) has become a potent connective force on the Web, and Tina’s public relations folks know that. When educators started talking about objects, there as no Google or SEO. Now we can do what Tina’s PR plan does and use SEO to identify objects within the typical education resource bundles — or hairballs, as depicted by a useful bit of network lingo.

This is what learning objects were meant to be. But the actual practice isn’t straightforward.