The World of Love Philippe

Love Philippe is an online guru who dispenses daily insights on his blog to a devoted following. When he founds Love Academy, thousands flock to enrol. Suddenly Love disappears, and no-one knows how to find him or the college staff. An elderly professor, Horace Romansky, accepts the students free of charge at Hinterlife University, a online rival of Love Academy. Their learning and socialisation occur in a bizarre world of blog postings, tweets, and virtual reality. The World of Love Philippe captures the colourful activities of online education in a collection of conference transcripts, interviews, infomercials, how-to-succeed guide books, and a culminating play. The overall objective is to highlight the comical nonsense generated by academics online and off. Jon Baggaley has taught at universities online and off, and Sheila James has been a writer and multimedia artist off and on.