Meaningful access: policy, management and orchestration

Access management for learning communities requires a unified theory, sustaining the implementation of instructional policies, for ‘social networks’. The management method we have reached is based on the integration of content-rich resources in ‘operations’ that model/control the access of those seeking to learn something by using them, with or without assistance. Activities may be sequenced emergently or planned, using scenarios (or ‘functions’ – a biological metaphor). The proposed formula offers multiple facilitations: guiding, sequencing, coordination, matching, tracing etc. The gradual concretisation of operational elements (human and machine interprets/executors) can rely on technical, semantic and administrative indexing and on the ‘metafunctions’ mechanism.