So, my supervisors said that the last set of research questions were questions for an entire career, not for something as narrow as a thesis. Now I’m down to:
How do virtual learning communities based in asynchronous online conferences support higher-education learners in the co-construction of knowledge?
How are self-presentation, identity and community relations implicated in online learning in these communities?
And here’s one of mine
What is the role played by co-operatively created virtual knowledge repositories in informal science learning?
Virtual knowledge repository – Virtual Learning community……I think I like yours better. But mine relates to the fact that the community may not have, as its sole goal, learning.
Still – we may find some interesting parallels