Last week I attended my first ER session. Until that point, I had been blithely telling everyone I hadn’t yet learnt anything new on my course. Things have changed!

Learning about research and setting out on the journey towards my dissertation is a scary underatking. The fact that I have no direct contact with my learners at the moment is going to be a bit of a hurdle, I suspect. Nevertheless, I suspect I would like to do something about the changing nature of learning materials under the influence of technology. I guess I could research that without access to learners. I do have access to learning providers, which is a start.

I suspect research into learning is a bit vague at best. Until the day we can put a drop of nailpolish onto a packet of information and track it through a person’s brain and beyond to their network, I don’t think we can say with any certainty how learning actually takes place and whether it takes place in the same manner in everyone’s head. It’s all informed (to varying degrees) conjecture. There, I’ve said it.