New publications

Many of the early issues in the field of telE-learning are now being addressed through professional and staff development routes, through innovative technological solutions, and through approaches and concepts that are better suited to particular educational contexts. TelE-Learning: The Challenge for the Third Millennium provides details of recent advances in this area. Issues covered include the position of online learning in the development of the information society, developments in virtual organisations, virtual institutes and virtual laboratories, and integrating collaborative learning and collective competencies in online learning practices. Information is provided on the creation and development of interactive and adaptive context-aware learning environments and e-learning portals. Roles that impact on online learning environments are explored, including case studies and models in teacher development and team work, team learning and team teaching. (Adapted from publisher's description).

The London School of Economics and Politics analysed results from a national, in-home, face-to-face survey of 1,511 young people aged 9–19 and a written questionnaire to 906 of their parents about Internet use within the home. These results are compiled in two reports, UK Children Go Online and Inequalities and the Digital Divide in Children and Young People's Internet Use. The findings of the report showed that a lack of Internet skills and experience among many UK parents is potentially harming their children's education and job prospects and could be placing them on the wrong side of a growing digital divide. (Adapted from the publishers description).