Leveraging Collaborative Tools

• At K-14 education level, dominant emphasis is “building learning communities” and tools to support collaborative learning

  • Fully interactive; semi-interactive (as in MOO model) or possibly asynchronous
  • Working through NCSA Alliance with NSF CILT center
  • 2.5D Chat is perhaps a nice tool here

• Web collaboration is central to many other applications

• Thus there are many leverage points

  • Synchronous teaching a good place for early deployment of collaborative tools as relatively structured and so less sensitive to immaturity of systems

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