This item will give you something knotty to think about over the weekend. This interesting - and yet puzzling - website describes a study designed to look at the relation between memes and learning. The idea of the study, as expressed by the author, involves "looking beyond IT solutions such as 'virtual' environments and 'intelligent' machines, towards an online education model which might be affect-centred rather than content-centred - and the idea that the answers might lie, not in the medium, the technology or the 'virtual' spaces, but in the minds of the users of the online systems - that there must be a conceptual framework which could facilitate this process." There is something deeply right about this line of thinking and a lot of what the author is proposing here forms a backdrop for my own discussions of online learning. A tough, engaging piece of research - put the coffee on and prepare to linger (note: the user interface is very difficult - you have to click on the yellow box *twice* in a given section to get the detailed discussion).
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