If these are the new skills for learning then it makes big differences to how we design and deliver learning programmes. Most ICT based platforms and learning materials have been based on Instructional Design. Stephen Downes said in a recent interview that ISD is the educational equivalent of dictatorship. Of sure, you are as a student given some choices - carefully designed state-sanctioned choices. But there is no freedom to explore, follow one's own interests, to wander through the hills and dales of the knowledge wonderland that lies beyond.