Collaborative inquiry at a distance: Using the Internet in geography education

This article describes how an experimental geography seminar utilized Inter net communication tools in conjunction with constructivist strategies to ac tively engage geographically distant students in the process of collaborati ve inquiry and comparative analysis. Review of the evidence suggests that t he application of constructivist-inspired teaching and learning strategies together with Internet communication tools served to facilitate geographica lly distant students in a dynamic process of collaborative inquiry and comp arative analysis. However, both the application of constructivist-based strategies and the in tegration of Internet tools require considerable time, effort, and resource s that may deter some geography educators from implementing similar Interne t-based collaborative learning environments.