I wrote before I left that I would write about my research while I was on sabbatical. I wrote one excuse below for not blogging in general. The other, bigger one is that as I dug into communities more and more, I realized that the topic has been researched to death. Who wants to go into a major research project knowing that there will be no significant difference? Most of the stuff I was looking at was on using discussion forums, but the same research results exists for blogs, and the same results will be found for wikis and whatever other community-based technologies are developed. Let’s move on…
I am looking into something fresher and more interesting for me (and I hope others, too). I cannot write about the topic yet, because it’s not yet ready for primetime, i.e., I’ll wait until I’m closer to being finished. Film at eleven.
Tags: learning, online, Research, thumb down