Hi Harold,

I wanted to ask you about the relationship between forgetting our identity and online user engagement. Do you think there is a clear link in how information and our environment can help us forget about this (our identify) and let us become engaged in an online learning event? I wanted to ask because I've thought about a lot of really engaging moments in my life (in the context of learning) and almost all of them somehow allowed me to forget about my identity as I usually think of myself. In fact it was the furthest thing from my mind. I think its no coincident that people love games because everyone gets to be a player and from the game we demonstrate our uniqueness. (creating a different identity online).

In order to get people engaged in e-learning courses I think it would be best to temporarily forget about our identify so we can learn something new. Something very counter-intuitive.

Just wondering what your thoughts are and if you have seen some research on this topic.

-Mike
michael_gambale@merck.com
cyberspacemike@gmail.gom