Presented by Lars-Erik Jonsson and Roger Säljö from Gothenburg
University, Sweden. Students attending seminars can sometimes
leave the seminar either annoyed that they were not able to make
a full contribution or relieved they were not found out! Online
seminars can help both groups of students. The project tried to
encourage useful participation by structuring the online
experience: - Sharing an experience - Friendly atmosphere -
Synchronising activities - Aiming for dialogue rather than
monologue Participants must be prepared. In a face to face-to-
face seminar, students can hide. Online, you have to contribute
or effectively you are not there. To contribute, you have to
prepare. Harder to hide your lack of preparation. Writing is a
powerful tool for the development of thinking. Asynchronous
contributions allow thinking time More or less eliminates
plagiarism - difficult to see how you could get someone else to
write all your contributions for you. Also, during the
discussions, you get to know the students a