Collaborative Learning in Asynchronous Learning Networks:Building Learning Communities
A old paper(1998) which talks about online learning and the collaborative aspect of ALN.
http://eies.njit.edu/~hiltz/collaborative_learning_in_asynch.htm
I would like to read this paper and discuss it with my group to see if we could get some information out of it which is still relavent after 7 years since the paper got published.