This article describes a research project in the area of cooperative telelearning. It summarizes the characteristics and results of a groupware-supported international teleseminar with 14 virtual student groups. On the basis of this field research and a theoretical model, the requirements and advantages of telepresence on effective and efficient learning are considered empirically. Thereafter, ...

Internationalization of research is reflected in the distributed nature of research communities. Research has a strong collaborative dimension. It is often carried out by non-collocated individuals and teams in the context of national / international funded programs, institutionally led projects, or simply self-motivated initiatives. Universities form a strong and influential component of these...

Although a substantial part of scientific research is collaborative and increasing globalization will probably lead to its increase, very few studies actually investigate the advantages, disadvantages, experiences and lessons learned from collaboration. In environmental epidemiology interdisciplinary collaboration is essential and the contrasting geographical patterns in exposure and disease ma...

The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment, and natural resources management. Through the Internet, we report on international negotiations and share knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW As a rare pediatric tumor, hepatoblastoma presents challenges to the individual practitioner as no center will see more than a handful of cases each year. RECENT FINDINGS The Children's Hepatic tumor International Collaborative (CHIC) effort has fostered international cooperation in this rare children's tumor, leading to the establishment of a large international collaborati...

Distributed, collaborative decision making is becoming more common in many organizations. It occurs for a multitude of decision types, and is enabled by IT support. However no systematic study of the use and impact of such IT-based environments on decision outcomes has been done. In this research I develop a taxonomy of information environments and the information and coordination mechanisms ma...

ABSTRACT We have analyzed data from a field study in collaborative telelearning. The participants were students from three educational institutions in Norway. The goal of the study was to investigate how the students used a set of groupware tools to coordinate learning activities. We have used concepts from collaborative telelearning (Bourdeau & Wasson, 1997) and coordination mechanisms (Schmid...

The increasing presence of multiple Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the classroom does not guarantee an improvement of the learning experiences of students, unless it is also accompanied by pedagogically effective orchestration of those technologies. In order to help teachers in this endeavour, it can be useful to understand how this orchestration takes place in real-world c...