Specific information on learning environments can be requested via e-mail from the involved persons. In order to reach the learning goals, the virtual seminar was structured into several steps. At the beginning, the participants introduced themselves and the first questions regarding the learning structure were clarified. Small groups were formed, so that up to five learners with related papers could work in the same group. At the conclusion of the task, every learning group presented a literature review paper on its own topic.
Participants search for internetworked learning environments that can be accessed via the Internet.
This information was retrieved using available Internet communication technologies like WWW, newsgroups, listservers, FTP, e-mail etc. This task was also solved cooperatively. The virtual seminar was closed with a discussion on the success and problems of the present learning. Through cooperation, the multiple perspectives principle is implicitly accomplished, since the task-oriented discussions display various view points of the learners. Besides the learning environments analysed in the small groups, each learner may follow the analyses performed by the neighboured groups, and thus see how the co-learners apply the theoretical knowledge in various contexts.