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No one doubts that the Internet has permanently changed the face of higher education.One of the institutions to experiment, foster, and promote computer-conferencing from its inception through to current Web-based forms is the Open University of the United Kingdom (OU UK).From 1988, OU UK's few online offerings have grown to over 160 Web-based courses in which over 100,000 students participate.Having been a student-participant in one of these early courses back in 1992, I read with intrigue Salmon's description of this effort.I remember logging on from Syracuse, New York to the text-only online course with four e-moderators and 45 other participants scattered throughout the world -from Israel, Australia, Latin America, the United States, but mainly Great Britain.I recalled the frustration of trying to get connected to the conference at 1:00 a.m. with my 9600 baud modem, relying on a tech-savvy fellow graduate student to figure out the problems.What a thrill it was to upload and download messages to these threaded discussions located on a server hundreds of miles across the ocean, to ruminate throughout the day about the conversations I read there, and to return to the conference the next day to post my thoughts and to find responses to my contributions as our conversations unfolded.
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