I specifically researched for my dissertation:

• the shifts students make when transitioning from a traditional, lecture-dominated class to one that is collaborative.
• how to promote collaborative learning in an environment (the Internet) often perceived as individualistic, and
• instructional strategies necessary to foster collaborative learning in a face-to-face course augmented with online activities.

Collaborative Learning and the Internet

This contribution reviews the empirical work concerning the conditions under which collaborative learning is efficient. The authors also review the mechanisms that have been proposed to explain the cognitive effects of collaboration. They stress the fact that these findings have been obtained in situations where two or more individuals have to solve a problem together.

The Testbed for Telecollaboration

Funded by the National Science Foundation , TERC is a project that involves science classrooms around the world working together to design experiments, gather and share their data, and analyze the results. Students and teachers communicate using World Wide Web browsers and data analysis software, such as "Alice Data Tools."

Academic Net

The information network for those interested in technology-mediated instruction and learning in higher education.

The World Lecture Hall

The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.

The Annenberg/CPB Project

The Annenberg/CPB Project is the nation's leader in helping colleges, universities, high schools and community organizations use telecommunications technologies to improve learning for all students, including the growing number of older and part-time students, and informal learners in their homes.

EdWeb

EdWeb explores the worlds of educational reform and information technology. With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine success stories of computers in the classroom, and much, much more.

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and builders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and on-line projects.

The Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks

Teaching and Learning Center

The UNL Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) provides teaching support services to UNL faculty and graduate teaching assistants. This home page is designed to keep readers informed of the latest developments in teaching and learning, from techniques to theory.

The Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments

SCALE faculty are participating in a three-year project of restructuring undergraduate courses to integrate various techniques associated with asynchronous learning networks (ALN). The goals of this project are to create efficiencies in the educational process (cost, time, faculty productivity), to increase student retention, and to decrease time-to-degree.

NetLearn: Internet Learning Resources

NetLearn is a directory of resources for learning and teaching Internet skills, including resources for WWW, email and other formats. Links with descriptive and evaluative annotations are provided, covering: learning, teaching, navigating and providing information on the Internet; learning HTML; demographics; special needs and foreign language resources. NetLearn is an award winning resource.