Technology can both customize education to the individual and promote community learning. Which is the more important benefit? Do the two goals conflict with each other? Community is an aggregation of individuals and therefore I see the one as containing and including the other with neither possessing primary importance.

To see that this is the case both concepts need to be defined and delineated upon and we also have to specify the benefits that technology can afford the individual.

As individual learning, individuals can learn different subjects and crafts over the web as well as conduct research and correspond with peers and teachers. Podcasts, iPods, online movies, online / virtual education, forums, chat groups and so forth -- anything that is technology based -- can vivify / animate learning and expand the individual's understanding of the subject. Information can also be more rapidly obtained so, for instance instead of waiting to library hours and hoping to obtain a certain book, the individual can obtain that material within a nana-second. Also important is the fact that an enormous, unimaginable abundance of material is available to the individual and all at the relatively free cost of internet...

One literally has the world at his fingertips and this can be enormous advantage to the individual. Disadvantages are few and include the fact that unreliable material is assimilated with reliable sources and the individual has to learn to differentiate. But this may have happened without technological opportunities too.
'Community learning' in the context of the question likely refers to groups formed within the community structure gathering for the shared purpose of acquiring a skill and/or further knowledge of a specific subject. This can be both practical and theoretical. Benefits here too are numerous in that instead of, for instance, arduously working to schedule and arrange meetings for individuals to meet at one time in a physical framework (and, frequently, this can be imposisble due to geogprahical distances), indivduals can instead convene from the privacy of their own home at their own convenience in both time and location. There are certain disadvantages to this, but the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.

As Dew (2010) notes, technology has literally changes the face of education enabling students -- or any individual for that matter -- to pursue a subject any time anywhere and in…