Presents major outcomes of a 2-year trial of the Open University's Cyclops shared-screen telewriting tutorial system. Impact of the system is considered in terms of human factors of the technology; tutors' and students' experience with Cyclops; and tutorial activities and their acceptability to participants. (Author)

The CYCLOPS system of Britain's Open University enhances the teleconference method of distance teaching by providing cassette tapes containing needed graphics and the necessary telephones and television monitors for their use at regional study centers. Despite technical problems, the student response has been as good as with face-to-face…

Considers patterns of interaction in small, mixed-sex groups of postgraduate students in computer conference environments. Participants were 11 females and 16 males in four groups. Findings suggest that this new work medium offers new opportunities for female members of mixed-sex groups to participate or direct conversations, and that women were…

Describes new developments in distributed educational computing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, "Athena"), Carnegie Mellon University ("Andrew"), Brown University "Intermedia"), Electronic University Network (California), Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (California), and University of California,…

Discussion of open learning and the use of computer-mediated communication systems (CMCS) focuses on Information Technology-based Open Learning (ITOL), a small-scale trial model of open learning developed at Lancaster University (United Kingdom). Application of ITOL to a master's program in management learning is described, and evaluation results…