Foreword. Conceptual order and collaborative tools : creating intellectual identity / Margaret Riel -- Introduction to electronic collaborators ; Computer conferencing and collaborative writing tools : starting a dialogue about student dialogue / Curtis Jay Bonk, Kira S. King -- Searching for learner-centered, constructivist, and sociocultural components of collaborative educational learning tools / Curtis Jay Bonk, Donald J. Cunningham -- Critical thinking in a distributed environment : a pedagogical base for the design of conferencing systems / Thomas M. Duffy, Bill Dueber, Chandra L. Hawley -- Bubble dialogue : tools for supporting literacy and mind / Charoula Angeli, Donald J. Cunningham -- Fostering ownership for learning with computer-supported collaborative writing in an undergraduate business communication course / John R. Savery -- Student role play in the world forum : analyses of an Arctic adventure learning apprenticeship / William A. Sugar, Curtis Jay Bonk -- Models of asynchronous computer conferencing for collaborative learning in large college classes / Siat-Moy Chong -- On the pedagogy of electronic instruction / Robert Althauser, Julia M. Matuga -- Electronic teaching : extending classroom dialogue and assistance through E-mail communication / Sonny E. Kirkley, John R. Savery, Melissa Marie Grabner-Hagen -- Learning and mentoring : electronic discussion in a distance-learning course / Erping Zhu -- Sharing aspects within Aspects : real-time collaboration in the high school English classroom / Deborah H. Cooney -- Time to "connect" : synchronous and asynchronous case-based dialogue among preservice teachers / Curtis Jay Bonk [and others] -- The use of computer-mediated communication : electronic collaboration and interactivity / Inae Kang -- Adventure learning as a vision of the digital learning environment / Martin A. Siegel, Sonny E. Kirkley --Designing 21st-century educational networlds : structuring electronic social spaces / Kira S. King.