This paper surveys the various teleconferencing trials in the Open University, and attempts to analyze why they have been relatively unsuccessful compared to other new media initiatives such as audio cassettes and computer assisted learning. The situation is placed in the context of British and European educational use of telecommunications in…

Provides the meditations of one teacher and the failures and successes experienced by her in trying to use electronic mail to establish contact with English teachers in Eastern Europe. Recounts the teacher's struggle, through journal excerpts, to become savvy about computer communications technology and how to exploit it. (HB)