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Welcome to the E1n1verse, Michelle A. Hoyle’s research and teaching blog. As of October 2008 with extra EduTech goodnesss as I’ve migrated from information retrieval for the web to examining metaphors and game design in World of Warcraft (WoW) that motivate people to learn and to work. I’m especially interested in social knowledge construction, persistence, and constructing communities of practice. I research motivation and these ideas in World of Warcraft, examining how they can be transferred into online distance education practices.

I’m London-based, currently working as a course author/course chair and associate lecturer at the Open University (UK) in the Web Apps Development short courses and other Technology courses while doing a part-time Ph.D. in the IDEAs Lab at the University of Sussex.

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