Open Distance Education: A Technological Approach within Social Perspective

The aim of this paper is to provide an argument material in order to open up a discussion concerning educational and political strategies within the field of distance education using a work experience of All Armenian Internet University (AAIU). In the field of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) the best deifications are where the exploration of the new possibilities is represented by the emerging technologies. In this paper, there is a desire to build learning environments to support a range of distributed cognitive work, i.e., communities of learners, conceptual learning conversations, and knowledge building communities. Instructional designers are in the initial stages of exploring the commonalities and discontinuities between the varieties of CSCL activities in AAIU.