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Robinson's statement above is a neat summary of where society is now with learning technology.Her writing arises from the experience of professional learning for business - her message is,however, transferable to the Education sector. For example, recent contract work has broughtme into contact with two types of education users tweeting:1. School managers 32 using twitter to get messages about their schools out beyond theconfines of their own local authority firewalled IT systems e.g.2. Educational technology pioneers 33 , trying to build a community of professionals who canshare information, ideas and guidance for each other e.g.Perhaps it is the affordance of tweeting from a handheld device that may be driving the adoptionof this potential learning technology since there is no need to get hands on a terminal, no need toremember a password and no need to log on to a system that will take 90 seconds to load,require you to launch a further application and then find third party client software to contributeto the construction of knowledge. In the same of edition of E.Learning Age, Naish (2011)comments,"Several practical issues compete for attention in e-learning: content, the learner'stechnological device and the delivery system/software. Ideally one achievesexcellence in all three. But often coming late to the party, like the fourth musketeer,is the issue of adoption by the target audience; is the e-learning really used? Withoutsuccessful adoption, the other issues (arguably) become irrelevant." (Naish, 2011 p.6)32 Permission granted for this citation, see foreword33 Permission granted for this citation, see foreword103Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)