Congratulations Terry.

Interesting research. Do you think you would get similar results regarding levels of collaboration at the Master's or Doctoral levels? I am wondering if contributions are linked to confidence in the opinions rather than technology comfort levels.

Congratulations Terry! See the glory is lasting at least 10 days! This is very interesting research and speaks to some of the aspects of my dissertation topic - a Virtual Staffroom to facilitate professional development and collegiality. I suspect that both lack of confidence in expressing opinions and lack of comfort with technology are factors. 

Veronica, I'm interested in your comments about detailed explicit instructions regarding participation.  I think this is an aspect of learning that needs to be addressed. It is "taught" to varying degrees in basic face-to-face education but not all students "get it" there and not everyone transfers the learning to a different setting.

Lots of possibility here. Thanks, Terry.

The self-selecting group of people who have actively chosen an isolated form of learning makes it very interesting indeed that any students (let alone a large number) would be interested in more interaction and collaboration. It would be interesting to discover whether this is a tendency that increases as more experienced students become exasperated with learning alone, or decreases as they get more used to the process. Any clues?