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Internet-based teaching and learning
funded by the European Commission

Co-ordinators:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Frindte & Dipl. Psych. Thomas Koehler
University of Jena; Germany

Further Members of the IN-TELE Consortium:
Dr. Anthony Vickers, University of Essex; United Kingdom
Dr. Alain Jaillet & Dr. Pascal Marquet, University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg I.; France
Rolf Wännström, Centre for Information Technology Northern Sweden; Sweden
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Haggenmüller, Research Institute for Software Technology; Germany

IN-TELE Essential

IN-TELE includes the development of new solutions for the use of the Internet for learning and teaching in schools. The main purpose of IN-TELE is the development of new solutions for the use of the Internet for learning and teaching in schools and for educational collaboration between schools. The project is lead by 3 university-based research groups and 2 independent research organisations. The participating schools are located in Sweden, France, Germany and in the United Kingdom.

We will address the following main objectives: We will create an conceptually innovative technological basis for Internet-based learning and teaching between the participating schools that is tailored to the specific educational strategy; develop an integrated working environment for the use of internetbased information for preparation and presentation of oral and multi-medial presentations to be used by the students and teachers; develop and implement a curriculum for training teachers Internet-based teaching and learning; disseminate the developed materials to help other schools with less support accessing Internet-based teaching and learning; providing psychological, pedagogical and media didactic support for the participating schools; supervise a joint thematic project of the participating schools on European identity.
IN-TELE will establish sustained Internet-based linkages and Multimedia communications between the European partners stepwise. Starting with the project staff we then provide teachers and finally students with that communication structure. In particular we will use electronic Mail, WorldWideWeb (WWW) pages, mailings lists and other asynchronous and synchronous Internet services. Our solutions is developed for average schools, dealing with the problem of low budgets, the difficulty of lacking experience among teachers and authorities and the problem of teachers' serious fears of new technologies.
Finally IN-TELE will bring together IT-Vendors with local authorities for education and telecom companies to help developing the future educational IT market and to help commercial enterprises accessing that market. Thus IN-TELE will be finished by the adoption of an exploitation plan with appropriate partners from the commercial IT market. Starting when the first configuration of the IN-TELE technology platform is available, bilateral discussions and dissemination activities with IT-vendors will take place. This will be an ongoing activity which should lead to an elaborated exploitation plan for the 4 European regions participating in the project. and for educational collaboration between schools.

IN-TELE Scientific Questions

Technological Impact
(A) Do teachers and students from the participating schools differ in their technical preconditions, in their computer competence (in the sense of self-directed acting with computer-mediated communication via Internet) and their individual versus social using of CMC ?
(B) Do the teachers and students in the participating countries accept the technological solutions introduced in their courses differently?

Educational Issues
(A) How can the discrepancies between the traditional constructions of the teachers' role and their new definition be reduced, especially concerning their role in a real classroom versus the new role as teacher in Internet-based settings?
(B) How do teachers perceive these discrepancies and how do they cope with them? How do teachers evaluate the results of learning? Which feedback-processes are possible in Internet-based learning and teaching?

Media- and socio-psychological Issues
(A) On the background of the social-context cues theory (Kiesler), the approach of hyperpersonal communication (Walther), the studies about self awareness in CMC (Matheson & Zanna) and our own results we will explain hypotheses to explore the possible connection between the technological impact and the following variables: i. social perception/cognition of in- and outgroups, ii. Impression Management, iii. Public and private self awareness, iv. flaming, v. Collective Self Esteem, vi. Personal Identity, vii. Computer Anxiety

Inter-cultural Issues
(A) How are intercultural stereotypes changed by Internet-based teaching and learning programs?
(B) Does Internet-based teaching and learning improve multicultural understanding?
(C) Is Internet-based teaching and learning possibly useful to help to develop a European social identity?

IN-TELE Main Solutions

1. Management & Organisation
2. Technological Hardware- and Software-Solutions for all schools and contractors
3. Computer- and Internet-based Training for all Teachers and Students
4. Ideas, Proposals and HTML-based Solutions for European-oriented Projects between all schools
5. Psychological, media-scientifically, educational and technological evaluation of the project
6. Scientific Conferences
7. Business Workshops, Teachers and Students Guide, CD-ROM Version of the ways of Internet-based Teaching and Learning