Colloquium for professional groups C5 (human-computer interaction) and C10 (consumer and domestic systems)

With the information explosion upon us and the assumption that it will affect more and more aspects of our lives, it is important to understand how education can utilise technology to best advantage, to avoid information overload. New technology allows educational courses to be presented in different electronic media formats and this raises a number of pedagogical questions. The STILE project (Students and Teachers Integrated Learning Environment) which is providing extra teaching resources to traditional and distance learning students, is investigating these issues. This paper concentrates on the structure adopted for the conferencing aspect of the project and shows how this limited the effects of information overload to some extent on both the students and tutors