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NetworkHad I only joined in with the APSCE community as an outcome of that visit, it would have beena worthwhile trip. Returning in 2005, this time as a presenter, and participating in theinformation exchange that goes hand in hand with academic work of this nature has made it evenmore valuable and durable as an experience. I formed partnerships with other academicsworking in similar fields, got plugged into an even broader range of literature than I would haveencountered with a more narrow UK focus. In this country, I believe that the JISC and itsoffshoots largely speaking control the intellectual domain of e-learning and grants for innovationtend to follow only their approved projects – it is the same with BECTA at Primary andSecondary education level. Around the Pacific Rim, however, academics and their students aregenuinely designing the future in free, imaginative and creative ways. It is at institutions likeStanford Research International that the frontiers of what is possible are being pushed everforward. Following the career of people like Jeremy Roschelle whom I met and worked with inSingapore, and his contribution to APSCE will always make participation in this particularnetwork informing and enriching.NewA key finding of this trip to New Zealand was the concept of rhizomic networks and the way inwhich the internet replicates itself in lots of smaller networks in commerce, businesses, schools,universities and now even homes. This was the essence of Cisco’s advertising campaign at theturn of the century. A subsidiary point was that each internet-enabled device operates as a nodeon this bigger network and acts metaphorically like the synapses of the brain in the neuralnetworks that cause us to function as human beings.263Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)