Beyond adoption to invention: Teacher-created collaborative activities in higher education

The potential learning benefits of the Web are diminished due to the comple xity of creating interactive, collaborative Web-based applications. The CoW eb is a collaborative Web site that allows users to create collaborative ap plications with great flexibility. The CoWeb facilitates open authoring whe re any user can edit any existing page or creating new pages. Using the CoW eb, both teachers and students have invented a wide variety of educational applications. Thus, the CoWeb serves as an example of an educational techno logy that has led to teacher inventiveness.