Electronic Collaborators: Learner-Centered Technologies for Literacy, Apprenticeship, and Discourse Book

	About the Contributors
	Foreword: Conceptual Order and Collaborative Tools - Creating Intellectual Identity
	Preface
	Introduction to Electronic Collaborators
I	Theoretical and Technological Foundations	1
1	Computer Conferencing and Collaborative Writing Tools: Starting a Dialogue About Student Dialogue	3
2	Searching for Learner-Centered, Constructivist, and Sociocultural Components of Collaborative Educational Learning Tools	25
3	Critical Thinking in a Distributed Environment: A Pedagogical Base for the Design of Conferencing Systems	51
II	Stand-Alone System Collaboration	79
4	Bubble Dialogue: Tools for Supporting Literacy and Mind	81
5	Fostering Ownership for Learning With Computer-Supported Collaborative Writing in an Undergraduate Business Communication Course	103
III	Asynchronous Electronic Conferencing	129
6	Student Role Play in the World Forum: Analyses of an Arctic Adventure Learning Apprenticeship	131
7	Models of Asynchronous Computer Conferencing for Collaborative Learning in Large College Classes	157
8	On the Pedagogy of Electronic Instruction	183
9	Electronic Teaching: Extending Classroom Dialogue and Assistance Through E-mail Communication	209
10	Learning and Mentoring: Electronic Discussion in a Distance Learning Course	233
IV	Multiconferencing: Asynchronous and Synchronous Classrooms	261
11	Sharing Aspects Within Aspects: Real-Time Collaboration in the High School English Classroom	263
12	Time to "Connect": Synchronous and Asynchronous Case-Based Dialogue Among Preservice Teachers	289
13	The Use of Computer-Mediated Communication: Electronic Collaboration and Interactivity	315
V	Looking Back and Glancing Ahead	339
14	Adventure Learning as a Vision of the Digital Learning Environment	341
15	Designing 21st-Century Educational Networlds: Structuring Electronic Social Spaces	365
	Author Index	385
	Subject Index	391