Distance Education (DE) in the Internet age is rapidly moving from experimental small-scale
projects to large-scale educational programs. This transition is likely to forward new sets of …

Distance Education (DE) is the centre of attention for many educational organisations and
recently many innovative examples of flexible educational designs that make use of the new …

The Internet has become a melting pot where most traditional media, such as television,
telephone and newspaper has merged and collided, resulting in fruitful combinations and …

Collaborative learning in an online classroom can take the form of discussion among the
whole class or within smaller groups. This paper addresses the latter, examining first …

Students working collaboratively are more successful than students working alone, these
fact was shown by research on technology-supported learning and teaching have clearly …

This chapter will focus on differences and similarities between classroom and distance
learning. What should count as learning and knowledge when information is available for …

This article investigates distance students' understanding of the prerequisites for interactive
learning in asynchronous, computer mediated university distance studies. It encompasses …

In this article we discuss distance-based teacher trainees' understandings of learning and
education in a computerised learning environment. Educational research today often …

Online technologies to support collaborative learning provide lecturers in distance higher
education with ever more opportunities to extend their teaching in beneficial ways. Students …

This paper focuses on the factors that influence collaborative learning in distance education.
Distance education has been around for many years and the use of collaborative learning …