Teaching in on-line and collaborative situations requires a
variety of responses including changes in pedagogy as
instructors taking the role of facilitators of information
while guiding students toward solutions. In order for
online learning to be successful, therefore, teachers as
well as learners will need to explore new roles in the
teaching-learning relationship. In this paper, the authors
propose to examine how educators can mediate
instruction by first designing their course goals and
objectives and then consider how the on-line environment
can best serve the instructional objectives and plan
appropriate activities and assessment. We seek to explore
the use of online environments as the bridge between real
world and reflective knowledge