“Our widest aim is to involve students in a shared community of learning. . . . By creating such materials themselves, course members can feel part of an academic world that is a helpful, co-operative and interested network of enthusiasts rather than mere customers of a remote and superior system.”

“Learning by cooperative publishing on the World Wide Web,” Tony Downing and Ian Brown, Active Learning 7 (December 1997). The entire article is available for download in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format at http://www.cti.ac.uk/publ/actlea/al7pdf/downing.pdf.