So it comes as no surprise to me that the a report on the state of e-learning that came out in May 2009 is out of date. As Tony Bates states in a June 10th critique, it misses some leading Canadian commentary - but again is that surprising? If the source data doesn't mention it, chances are they're going to miss things like, oh, blogs or distributed sources. I guess I might be a cynic, and would write the whole thing off, except the government pays my paycheque, as it does for many of the people involved in higher education e-learning.