This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology focuses on the use of technology-mediated interaction in distance education and open learning. It emphasizes models for collaborative dialogues and learning dialogues through a computer network.

Inhalt
1 A Pedagogical Framework for CMC Programmes.- 2 Computer Support for Collaboration.- 3 Some Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-Mediated Communication.- 4 Learning in Groups: Some Experiences of Online Work.- 5 Learning Experiences with Collaborative Working Technologies: Some Critical Factors.- 6 Towards Collaborative Learning at a Distance.- 7 An Experimental Network-Mediated Study Support System in Higher Distance Education.- 8 Innovative Support Technologies for Tele- and Team-Work at Universities.- 9 Remote Collaboration in Medicine: Some Tools and Experiences in Portugal.- 10 Models and Systems for Collaborative Dialogues in Distance Learning.- 11 Cooperative Open Systems Architecture.- 12 The Role of Knowledge Based Systems for Automatic Coordination in Distance Learning.- 13 Supporting Collaborative Dialogues in Distance Learning.- 14 Towards Models of Interaction Between an Artificial Agent and a Human One.- 15 The Natural Laboratory Methodology Supporting Computer Mediated Generic Dialogues.- 16 Building an Evolving Knowledge-Base from Computer Teleconferencing.- 17 Educational Scenarios for Telecommunication Applications.- 18 Developing a Tool to Support Collaborative Dialogues and Graphical Representation of Ideas.- 19 Real-Time Multimedia Conferencing System and Collaborative Learning.- 20 Distributed Multimedia Environment for Distance Learning.- 21 Production of Flexible and Modulized Course Material in COSYS.- 22 OSCAR: A System for Collaborative Distributed Authoring of Multimedia Training Materials.- List of Contributors.