Preface 7

Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld & Bo Fibiger 11

Introduction

PART 1: PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK

Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld 31

Designing Virtual Learning Environments Based on Problem Oriented Project Pedagogy

Jørgen Lerche Nielsen 55

The Implementation of Information and Communication Technology in Project Organized Studies

PART 2: ICT AND LEARNING

Ann Bygholm 83

Understanding Communication in Text-based Systems

Michael Barner-Rasmussen 106

Integrating Networked Technology into the Classroom - a Heuristic for Affecting Interactions

Helle Mathiasen & Pernille Rattleff 124

The Conditions of Communication in Computer-Mediated, Net-Disseminated Educational Settings

Arne Kjaer & Helle Mathiasen 142

IT: A Challenge for the Educational System - an Analysis Inspired by N. Luhmann's Theory of Systems and Epistemology

PART 3: Didactic Design

Elsebeth K. Sorensen, Eugene S. Takle, Michael R. Taber & Douglas Fils 165

CSCL: Structuring the Past, Present, and Future through Virtual Portfolios

Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen 192

Distributed CSCL - a Situated, Collaborative Tapestry

Bo Svarre Nielsen 206

Implementing a Distance Learning Facility in a Large Company

Håkon Tolsby 231

Digital Portfolios - a Tool for Learning, Self-Reflection, Sharing, and Collaboration

Bo Fibiger 248

Didactic Design of Virtual Learning Environments - Modes of Communication

PART 4: Research Methodology

Sisse Siggaard Jensen 269

Building Communities of Practice in Research on New Media and Learning Activities

Marianne Georgsen & Pirkko Raudaskoski 283

What is Local Practice in Technology Mediated Environments - Video Analysis of Situated Interaction and Learning

Janni Nielsen, Rikke Orngreen, Sisse Siggaard Jensen & Ellen Christiansen 310

Learning Happens - Rethinking Video Analysis

Authors 341

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Learning in Virtual Environments challenges the traditional understanding of teaching and learning as something which exclusively takes place in physical rooms and institutions. Teaching and learning mediated by information and communication technology (ICT) transcend borders of time and space.

Throughout the last decade Danish researchers have been in front developing new methods and analyzing the possibilities and limitations of these forms of learning. Their work is presented in this anthology.

The special Danish approach to learning in problem oriented project pedagogy frames the book. Possibilities and limitations of the virtual learning environment are seen through different theoretical optics. In the section on didactical design issues such as virtual portfolio and the design of virtual learning environments are presented. The book is finalized by a discussion on research methods.

Learning in Virtual Environments is the result of a mutual engagement within the Danish Research Network on Learning and Multimedia.

The network has also published the book Learning and Narrativity in Digital Media.