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“The fact that something is technologically possible does not imply that it is also educationally desirable”

- Salomon, 1999, p. 36, cited in Tutty & Klein, JD 2008, ‘Computer-mediated instruction: a comparison of online and face-to-face collaboration’, Education Tech Research Dev, vol. 56, pp. 101-124.

“Beware of inert ideas - ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.”

- Whitehead 1929, cited in Barkley et al. 2005, Collaborative learning techniques: a handbook for college faculty, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.

“The key challenges the Internet community will face in the future is not simply technological, but also sociological.”

- Kollock 1996, p. 1, cited in Dixon et al. 2006, ‘Breaking the ice: supporting collaboration and the development of community online’, Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, vol. 32 no. 2, Spring.

“When there is trust among people, relationships flourish; without it, they wither.”

- Preece 2000, p. 191, cited in Rovia, A 2002, ‘Building sense of community at a distance’, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol. 3 no. 1.

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