This set of Web pages started off life as a journal documenting the learning theories behind experiential learning in the computer classroom, and the development of a seminar describing the theories.

It has since turned into an eclectic collection of more-or-less related topics which are selected solely on the basis that they add something to the understanding I construct of what happens when I help people learn about Word, or Web Page Creation, or whatever. It's also acquiring some topics about organisational learning. In fact, this is a hypertext mind map of my mental model of how some things work.

The collection is intended to be browsed through the hyperlinks which are embedded in the text, following threads as the fancy takes the reader. There's an introduction, but no conclusion. There's also a table of contents (TOC).

Some of the pieces here I have written myself in the course of my studies, some are quotations and some are taken from Web sites. I would have liked to set the whole thing up as hypertext as envisaged by Ted Nelson, but there were problems with this approach. It isn't possible to link back to this site easily if I jump off somewhere else in Web space, and pages on other servers have a nasty habit of disappearing just after you've put up a link to them. I have acknowledged quotes and Web pages where they occur. I am not aware of having breached copyright, or indulged in plagiarism. However, the issues of hypertext, plagiarism and copyright provide an interesting and possibly conflicting set of ideas.

There's a bibliography in here somewhere. I would have liked to hyperlink the references in the text to the appropriate citation in the bibliography, but I used Reference Manager to construct the bibliography and Logictran R2net to convert the text to HTML, and I can't reconcile their different approaches, or at least not automatically. Such is life.

If you've read this far, you might now like to jump to a definition of learning, a pretty good place to start.