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Hi,

I strongly recommend Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi's edited text (full text) of Theory and Practice of Online Learning, from Athabasca University ( http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book). This 454 pages of comprehensive coverage of e-learning will be a useful reference.

I would like to invite you also to my website: http://www.elearning-onestop.com/. Here you will find pointers to plenty more useful resources on e-learning.

Karim

This is an excellent idea. Strangely Constructivisim- although it evolved out of the writing of Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky hasn't come back very much in its modern form. I'd also like to see much more study of Jurgen Habermas here.

We have begun a Russian-language wiki on the subject of Moodle in Saint Petersburg.

try http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=e-learning
I also liked Gerry Stahl papers for my thesis
http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/mit/

though in classical understanding, E-learning probably wasn't imagined as much of collaborative nature.. - just another means to put/get information..
probably one of the first biggest steps was done by the Open University
http://www.open.ac.uk/elearning/
http://www.olf.ac.uk/
and the concept of e-learning is kind of fuzzy - see the attached pic..

I also liked Salmons 5-stages model - it is good to plan your communities' activity while it matures..
http://www.atimod.com/e-moderating/5stage.shtml
well, and e-tivities is something very basic
http://www.atimod.com/e-tivities/intro.shtml

good luck

We are trying to widen and deepen the discussions
on the fuller context of eLearning (and Moodle of course )
in the Tech&Pedagogy Study Group here at moodle.org
Please join in!

1998..

As a co-author , I am hardly likely to claim that this paper http://ifets.ieee.org/russian/depository/v8_i4/html/1.html is classical but it is about e-learning and OPen Source (in this case our use of Moodle at CABWEB) and it is already in Russian!
You should include a link not upload the paper.

The first reference that I give to students researching in this area is more of a book than a paper.  Look for the Guidelines on CSALT page.

There's a lot of content and discussion at

http://otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook/

I also found

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Stage%202%20Mapping%20(Version%201).pdf

a very useful review of online learning models, which includes and goes beyond constructivisim.

Hope this helps,

Andy D

Thank to everyone for suggestions, it really helps. I'll post when there'll be some translation progress.