Can self-study be social?

Clive Shepherd, U.K. e-learning consultant, comments on the possibility of isolated self-study to be viewed as a method of learning with a social element.

“I believe self-study could feel very much like one-to-one learning if the content was prepared with a degree of personality. Ideally that would mean you got to know who designed it, a rare occurrence for sure, but something you would take for granted in the classroom, where trainers are anything but anonymous.”