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....... or virtual spaces where students can represent their learning, or, become who they want to be and where unexpected learning takes place see the work of Ray Land et al where the authorial voice changes, where the site of learning becomes owned by the students, where ethnography gets turned on its head, where institutional control via blackboard, webct, loses power, see http://secondlife.com where students can construct their own learning environments. Remember Barnett's supercomplexity .. Land suggests we have textual instability, shift in epistemology, shift in veracity and the verifiable, and I have a feeling, that the learning that students do in the years to come will be through socially constructed, virtual, democratic learning environments such as these. I have great faith in socially constructed learning. On Radio 4 yesterday, there was a piece that stated wikipedia was similar in error rate to Encyclopedia Brittanica. Should we be thinking about learning spaces in a whole new different way? Should there be a way of giving warrant to this new collective accumulation of experience and learning, in which case, what is the warrant? Should we be changing our accounting models to allow for a new way of encouraging informal chat, discussion, and collaboration of learning? How amazing would it be, to get students to organise their virtual seminar sessions on a tropical beach somewhere, explore issues ......... chris ________________________________ From: learning development in higher education network on behalf of Kate Smith Sent: Thu 07/12/2006 17:16 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Research on locations for study Hi Sarah Stella Cottrell gets students to reflect on the space and environment that they study in Chapter 4 of The Study Skills Handbook. Kate -----Original Message----- From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah McCarthy Sent: 07 December 2006 11:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Research on locations for study Hi all, I've had a rather unusual, but interesting request from a student. He is compiling a reflective learning journal and was wondering if there had been any research done on "appropriate places for studying" ie anything that proved that some environments aided concentration and focus more than others. I'm presuming by "places" he means study centres, libraries, individual study rooms etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks and early season's greetings to all! Sarah This email and any attachment may contain information that is confidential, privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. It is intended for the sole use of the legitimate addressee only. If you received this message in error, please let me know and delete the email and any attachment immediately. Thank you.---------------------- Sarah McCarthy University of Exeter