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During the course of a collaborative project about virtual universities, Vivienne Light started to refer to student study-bedrooms as ‘nests’. There was something engaging about her metaphor. Cosy, personalized spaces: private, yet securely embedded in a larger community. If equipped with networked computers, these rooms become ‘learning nests’. I suspect this particular theme resonated well with our romantic image of learning. It suggested contented young scholars, absorbed in research, insulated from distraction, yet reinforced by a slightly monastic community around them.
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Crook, C. (2002). The Campus Experience of Networked Learning. In: Steeples, C., Jones, C. (eds) Networked Learning: Perspectives and Issues. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0181-9_17
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