Welcome to All Together Now, a chance for you to influence the future of learning across the FE and Skills sector. I want to hear everyone’s ideas and experiences. This site already hosts active discussion groups, a lot of interesting content and many challenging opinions and suggestions. I’m really pleased that so many people have already taken the time to make their views known. So please join in the debate.

It is so obvious that digital technologies are changing our world – how we work, play, organise ourselves, communicate with each other and, most importantly here, how we learn. We have already seen the impact of the internet and the ownership of PCs and laptops in the classroom, library and workshop, and we know they help people learn faster and get better results.

Kevin Brennan MP
Minister for Further Education & Skills

To read Kevin's welcome in full, click here.

We have now put together some simple statements on where things could be heading towards 2020 and how that compares with evidence of where the sector is overall at the moment. They cover five main areas:

- Content and digital resources
- Blogosphere, social media, web 2
- Provider and workforce capability
- Learner experience
- Employers

Some of us will be starting up specific groups on each of these in the next few days. Some questions we hope to answer include:

•Do you agree with the aspects of a 2020 vision? What would you see differently? Where would you go further? •Do you recognise the 2009 limitations? What would you add or change? • What key actions need to be taken, or barriers removed, to accelerate progress towards a 2020 vision?

Have your say in the 2020 group here.

We will run the discussion over the next two months, gathering your views, feeding these back to the Minister and using them to develop our policy making.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Stuart Edwards, BIS