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This text explores how academics face up to radical changes in the learning environment. With the implementation of new technologies to support teaching and learning there is a need for more strategic approaches to teaching and learning.
Although research in collaborative learning has a fairly long history, dating back at least to the early work of Piaget and Vygotsky, it is only recently that workers have begun to apply some of its findings to the design of computer based learning systems. The early generation of the!le systems focused on their potential for supporting individual learning: learning could be self paced; teaching could be adapted to individual learners' needs. This was certainly the promise of the later generation of intelligent tutoring systems. However, this promise has yet to be realised. Not only are there still some very difficult research problems to solve in providing adaptive learning systems, but the...
The primary consideration of this book is the development and application of telecommunication techniques to enhance human knowledge and skills. The areas of application include education at primary, secondary and university levels, as well as training in various other situations, particularly the workplace. The papers, contributed by various experts across the discipline, are divided into the following themes: educational aspects, social aspects, technology, distance working and case presentations. In its entirety, the publication affords a probing view into this rapidly expanding and highly important technological area.