• Can technology change learning by providing more than just tools?
• Do technologies enhance or detract from the learning process?
• Do teachers and students have different perspectives of how and when communication technology enhances the learning process?
• Can communication help learners to gain access to concepts and to present and share their developing understanding?
• Can technology really enable better and more meaningful feedback from students and to students?

• Does technology mediated communication develop commitment in learners?
• Is peer support enhanced or diminished by technology?
• Are partnerships in learning enhanced in scope, scale, breadth or depth by communication technologies?
• Do learning technologies serve the corporate learner?
• What kinds of communication are needed to build communities of learners, foster collaborative learning and break down barriers at individual, departmental, institutional, national and international levels?
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• How do learning technologies best serve diverse communities of learners?
• Does technology include or exclude non-traditional learners?
• Is learning without barriers realisable through technological mediation?
• What benefits can communication bring to diverse and non-traditional communities of learners?
• Can learning technologies make access to HE and FE 'seamless' for non-traditional students?

     Distance learning

• Is learning without borders possible?
• Can we overcome time and space with the aid of learning technologies?
• Do we need technologies to meet the challenges of the globalisation of learning?
• Can communication help to close cultural divides and enable learning without borders, to meet the challenges of globalisation?
• Will communicating and co-operating with our partners in Europe and beyond be enhanced and celebrated or will it exacerbate the cultural divides?
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     The future

• What are the promises, problems and prospects of communication in e-learning?
• Is the reality of e-learning rhetoric or is it delivering the benefits claimed for it?
• Do we need new frameworks for e-learning and will this be evolution or revolution?

• Will new technologies react to the new education market place or will the market react to the technologies?
• What will education look like in the future when portable communication devices have become more powerful and more intelligent, and bandwidth is no longer a limiting factor?
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