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Typically, online conversations within a university course or a community of professionals tend to take the form of a dialogue or discussion focusing on a given theme. The two different cases presented here are quite different, despite being goal...

A common "mistake" made by lecturers teaching online is to do little more than put their notes online, and to support it with some sort of electronic mailing list. Many online learning environments such as WebCT and Blacboard are also designed to...

Abstract: This study considers the possible way in which Keller's ARCS-model of motivation can be used to analyse the role of the instructor in motivating post-graduate students in a game-based online learning event for adults. It is a snapshot of...

This paper tells the story of a conflict that arose in a virtual community after a member who was offended by a Halloween site built by the community, hacked and destroyed it. The paper considers the nature and causes of cyber conflict and draws a...

In Internet-based teaching and learning it is essential to ask: "What must the learners do?" We cannot rely on them to sit back, relax, and take a test afterwards. This paper illustrates four unique learning models, a virtual debate, a rag...

This paper discusses research undertaken to document the process of introducing and using information and communication technology (ICT) in the secondary schools of Mozambique in the last three years of the 20th century. The research takes the form...

Typically, online conversations within a university course or a community of professionals tend to take the form of a dialogue or discussion focusing on a given theme. The two cases presented here are quite different, despite being goal-related. ...