Many of the early issues in the field of telE-learning are now not only
recognised but are being addressed, through professional and staff
development routes, through innovative technological solutions, and
through approaches and concepts that are better suited to particular
educational contexts. TelE-LEARNING: The Challenge for the Third
Millennium provides details of the most recent advances in this area,
and covers issues concerned with:
-the position of on-line learning in the development of the information
society;
-developments in virtual organisations, virtual institutes and virtual
laboratories;
-creation and development of interactive and adaptive context-aware
learning environments using intelligent agents and cognitive style
match;
-integrating collaborative learning and collective competencies into
on-line learning practices;
-creation and development of e-learning portals, and concerns with
inter-operability;
-uses of on-line learning environments in diverse subjects, such as
environmental education, mathematics and ICT;
-changes with educational organisation and the impact of culture and
culturation;
-the role of case studies and models in teacher development of
practice;
-educational uses of broadcasting and web-based technology;
-creation and development of assessment and computerised examination
systems in on-line learning environments;
-the role of team work, team learning and team teaching in on-line
learning environments used for work-based purposes;
-the role of on-line learning environments in parent-child relationships
and rehabilitation situations;
-a focus on shifts in female enrolment in computer science courses;
-theories and concepts of telE-learning (including the application of
activity theory and situated learning theory to on-line delivery and
learning);
-developments in appropriate research methodologies for on-line learning
environments.
TelE-LEARNING: The Challenge for the Third Millennium contains the
edited proceedings of Stream 3 of the 17th World Computer Congress,
which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information
Processing (IFIP) and held in Montréal, Québec, Canada in August 2002.
