This ariclte went ahead and made my day.
- Wilhelmina

Interesting findings. I think we're getting there in quite a few courses, that have active discussion forums and/or that encourage a culture of sharing, but I think the need to cater for diversity is important. I've never seen a study where the relationship between community and learning/satisfaction/etc is 100% correlated. Some people like to learn alone, or need to learn alone, or are better off learning alone, at least for some subjects and in some contexts - AU caters very well for them! And, as a result, we tend to have quite a self-selecting and unusual group of learners in that regard that are less needful of a learning community. The challenge is to provide opportunities for greater community and social interaction, because such things indisputably offer by far the best supports for learning for most people, but without losing the opportunities for others to manage well without them.

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- Jaydee

Thanks guys, I just about lost it lonikog for this.
- Morrie

Interesting moment capture!