In Search of Building-blocks for Successful Computer Network-based Learning Projects

An information society demands peoples abilities be quite different from the previous machine age, including self-directed learning, information literacy, cultural literacy (understanding different cultures), effective communication, and collaborative, creative and systemic problem solving. Rapid development of computer and information technologies brought about new approaches of developing such abilities. Among the new technologies, computer network-based communication has rapidly emerged as an alternative of computer-based instruction as telecommunication technology progressed and education became more globalized.