It strikes me that both the online and the physical environment help regulate the activity within an educational institution. One requires new habits (online - VLE, institutional systems, etc) but is optional, the other is much more coercive (physical estate - classrooms, coffee bars, corridors) but both serve to increase the probability of successful communication. Cultural regulators are very interesting. They include curricula, timetable, quality regimes, personnel stuff, etc. But I also think they also include less concrete things like 'tradition'. I'm finding tradition very interesting at the moment: it seems to be the 'dark matter' that keeps educational institutions going. I was thinking about tradition when I did this 'edwardian improvisation' on the improvisation blog...
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