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This chapter briefly reviews the use of computer conferencing on a distance education course on information technology at the British Open University. The course enrols around 1500 students annually, and involves the participation of about 80 part-time tutors. Tutors and students access the University’s conferencing system from their homes over a dialup network. The chapter highlights some of the design issues involved in integrating computer conferencing into a multi-media distance education system, going from interface design, through social network design, to overall course design. Conventional distance education course design principles will need to be extensively reviewed if the potential of computer conferencing for true collaborative learning is to be realised.
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Kaye, A.R. (1995). Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in a Multi-Media Distance Education Environment. In: O’Malley, C. (eds) Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85098-1_7
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