Re: on-line community and distance education

Timothy Koschmann (tdk who-is-at cs.colorado.edu)
Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:25:52 -0700

Kevin Leander wrote:
>Jay, I really like your re-vision of what the web can help make possible
>in educational activity (e.g., long-term mentoring rather than course
>structures, etc.). I'd much rather such visions drive change than present
>practices duplicated and marketed on the web, but I'm also worried about
>the early, somewhat durable effects that large institutional movers may
>have.

For those interested in this issue, Tim O'Shea is organizing a panel for
CSCL '97 on the possibilities of collaborative learning in the virtual
university. Tim is based at Open University, which as many of you know,
has been doing networked-based distance education for a long time. ---Tim

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