ConieD is the biannual Congress on Computers in Education, organised by
the Spanish Association for the Development of Computers in Education
(ADIE). The last Congress, held in Puertollano (Ciudad Real), brought
together researchers in different areas, ranging from web applications,
educational environments, or Human-Computer Interaction to Artificial
Intelligence in Education. The common leitmotiv of the major part of the
lectures was the World Wide Web. In particular, the focus was on the
real possibilities that this media presents in order to make the access
of students to educational resources possible anywhere and anytime. This
fact was highlighted in the Conclusions of the Congress following this
Preface as the Introduction. From the full 92 papers presented to the
Programme Committee we have selected the best 24 papers that we are
presenting in this book. The selection of papers was a very difficult
process, taking into account that the papers presented in the Congress
(60) were all good enough to appear in this book. Only the restrictions
of the extension of this book have limited the number of papers to 24.
These papers represent the current high-quality contributions of Spanish
research groups in Computers in Education. Manuel Ortega Cantero José
Bravo Rodríguez Editors xiii Introduction ConieD'99 (1st National
Congress on Computers in Education) has brought together a very
important group of Spanish and Latin American researchers devoted to
studying the application and use of computers in education.
