I’ll go read it, actually…

I’m not entirely sure what Ensemble see as possible. It seems to me that the main focus of their three-year project is in answering exactly what you just asked. They do a have a bit more information about the sorts of things they’re interested in (particularly in class interaction and data management), but that’s very much what they’re asking themselves.

The way I understand it, they’re basically looking at what the Semantic Web is (machine-readable and therefore augmentable connections among data), and asking how this could be applied to education. They see a specific relevance to case-based learning, which is, I’m afraid, something I don’t know much about personally. I seem to remember lectures on case-based learning in language acquisition modules at university, but they obviously didn’t stick .

Talis’ own educational division—Xiphos: http://www.talis.com/xiphos—would probably be a more relevant place to find discussion about it. The other thing to do would be to ask the Ensemble team themselves. They might have a white paper or similar you could read?