Athabasca University specialises in distance education and innovations in learning.They feature a chart of online collaborative tools. Various a/synchronous, text-based, A/V tools and CMS are evaluated. It displays these as products ,or as reports.They aim to utilise mainly free collaborative social software.

A dissertation on Teaching and Learning with ICT aims to contribute to "the ongoing change process in Europe's Higher Education in general...and change at the teacher training...in particular". "So far, the paradigm has been that teachers need to be taught as they are supposed to teach. The dilemma of bringing teachers and teacher students to a new didactic method, like the integration of ICTs, is in the fact that they themselves have been taught in plenary, discursive, non-ICT supported ways."  (UNESCO, 2004)