The conference is an opportunity to participate in a forum for the critical examination and analysis of research into networked learning ie learning and teaching carried out largely via the Internet/Web which emphasises dialogical learning, collaborative and cooperative learning, group work, interaction with on-line materials, knowledge production.

Papers which critically report the results of research and evaluation in Networked Learning are invited on the main themes of:

• e-learning, e-tutoring
• distributed communities
• working across boundaries
• international and cross cultural issues
• relationships between research, theory, policy and practice
• institutional innovation and sustainability
• methodologies for researching NL
• new technologies for supporting NL
• designing for learning networked learning