TelE-Learning: The Challenge for the Third Millennium(102 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

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.

Table of Contents:
Teacher education (TED) track — Invited Paper.- Design of teacher e-learning: The scenario model.- Teacher education (TED) track — Papers.- Developing technology competencies among Egyptian college of education students.- Co-operative parent-child learning: In computerised technological environments.- ICT-supported teaching and learning: Some priorities and objectives for the future.- Learning aids and learners’ activities in the field of object-oriented modelling.- Experiment around a training engine.- Collaborative learning of mathematics: Problem-solving and problem-posing supported by ‘Knowledge Forum’.- Teaching historical truth: Pages from the history of Russian computer science.- Creating technology mentor teachers through a digital sabbatical opportunity on-line.- Pedagogical ICT licences: A Danish national initiative to offer teachers technology literacy.- Electronic testing system.- Banjos on the Snowy: Implementing e-Activism in education.- Streaming technology — How does it affect education? Report from a project using satellite-based communication.- National strategy for teacher training in new ICT use: The Ukrainian case.- e-learning Portal@Austria: The innovative platform for education, science and culture in the Knowledge Society.- ULEARN: A project for building a European community of pioneer teachers.- City-to-Surf — A peer-to-peer model of on-line professional development: A collaborative mentoring model.- The challenge of the information society for South African teachers.- A computerised examination system.- Life-long learning — Professional development (LL-PD) track — Invited Paper.- Life-long learning in virtual learning organisations: Designing virtual learning environments.- Life-long learning — Professional development(LL-PD) track — Papers.- Using case studies to promote life-long learning.- Virtual Institute for the Modelling of Industrial Manufacturing Systems: Integration of on-line and ‘face-to-face’ learning in an international platform for teaching and research.- Quality of working life, knowledge-intensive work processes and creative learning organisations: Information processing paradigm versus self-organisation theory.- Public and private partnerships for intense e-Business training.- Adaptive context-aware learning environments: Live spaces as a basis for life-long learning in computer science.- Learning environments and responsibility: Three types of learning environments.- Issues in the organisational and change context for innovations using ICT in higher education.- Cultural differences of female enrolment in tertiary education in computer science.- Towards a cyclical model of distance education.- A qualitative study of change and reform through professional development and innovation diffusion: One university’s experience.- Understanding the process of information systems and ICT curriculum development: Three models.- Issues of decentralisation and central control in educational management: The enabling and shaping role of technology.- Informal learning communities in the knowledge economy: Informal knowledge development in the multimedia sector.- Learning technologies (LT) track — Invited Paper.- Modelling and delivering distributed learning environments.- Learning technologies (LT) track — Papers.- A distributed and co-operative environment to help the rehabilitation of childen with Down’s syndrome.- Information systems and educational engineering: Bridging two concepts through meta modelling.- Emerging base for telE-learning in India.- Web-adaptivetraining system based on cognitive student style.- A methodological and physical instrumentation to support experimentation in telE-learning.- How to change the unchanging? Restructuring Polish universities for the XXI century.- The long-term trends in changing educational organisation in the Ukraine.- Distributed learning and management system for university courses.- An editing tool based on cognitivism theory to support distance learning.- Learning high level programming in a virtual laboratory using the SimulNet educational platform.- Standardisation in telE-learning: A critical analysis.- e-PhD: A new approach for post-graduate studies in developing countries.- Tang Educational partnerships on-line: Global collaborative learning through an on-line student exchange programme.- LearnNet: VSAT-based interactive distance learning network to upgrade distance education in India.- Using multiple perspectives to interpret empirical results: Does it add value to the interpretation?.- Usability evaluation of web-based learning: An essential ingredient for success.- Gold Peach 1996–2001: Series research on developing a learning web community.- Author index.- Key word index.