Brian Lamb (channelling Tom Coates and Clay Shirkey) talks about Mass Amateurisation with respect to weblogs.
Isn't that sort of what software like CAREO is supposed to do for the learning object realm? That's my perception of the reason for CAREO even existing - let The People create and publish their stuff as learning objects, and let The People find/use/share/discuss them via the software...
Anyway, that's my take on it. YMMV.