This linked to the first plenary and looked at how they designed aspects of the project. There is almost 50% of the population on line across the world and there are massive changes and potential. The learning by design project took account of this when being developed to have knowledge developing communities. The project developed 7 principles to be used when designing programmes:

• Ubiquitous – anytime, anywhere
• Feedback – formative
• Multi-modal learning – text, image, sound and data
• Active knowledge making – design by meaning
• Collaborative intelligence
• Metacognition – thinking about thinking
• Differentiated learning