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The purpose of this note is twofold: 1. Advance notice of a workshop (June 8th & 9th 2000, Lake District, UK) on the topic of teaching/tutoring in on-line environments. 2. An invitation to contact me if you are interested in this area - whether or not you'd be able to participate in the workshop itself. This workshop is being organised under the auspices of IBSTPI (The International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction - http://www.ibstpi.org/) and Lancaster University's JISC-funded project on Network Learning in Higher Education - http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/jisc/) The workshop is concerned with understanding how (good) on-line teachers do what they do. Part of the agenda for the workshop will be the creation of some draft competence frameworks and statements that may subsequently be used in the design of training for on-line teachers/tutors, or in certification testing or recruitment processes. Another part of the agenda is to construct a broader understanding of teaching in on-line environments, looking particularly at the actions, goals, knowledge and beliefs of more and less experienced on-line teachers. The audience for the workshop will be people with a strong interest in on-line teaching - particularly where the learners are adults (e.g. in university teaching, training/staff development in public sector organisations, networked learning in corporations, etc). We aim to get a good mix of people with research interests in this area and people who have professional experience of, or responsibility for, recruiting or managing on-line teachers. There is strong interest in this area among some of the larger players in the networked learning field (e.g. among technology providers like Microsoft and Lotus/IBM and in 'corporate/virtual universities' like Motorola U, British Aerospace, etc). Please email me for further information and to give me some idea of your interest in/experience of this area. Peter Goodyear ------- Peter Goodyear Professor of Educational Research Editor, Instructional Science CSALT, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YL, England Tel: +44 (0)1524 594373 Fax: +44 (0)1524 592914 CSALT: http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/csalt/ Instructional Science: http://www.wkap.nl/journals/instructional_science %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%