Early e-learning systems, based on Computer-Based Learning / Training often attempted to replicate autocratic teaching styles whereby the role of the e-learning system was assumed to be for transferring knowledge, as opposed to systems developed later based on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ( CSCL ), which encouraged the shared development of knowledge.

* Collaborative Learning Center – place for students to receive help from mentors on writing, class work, or presentations

The Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement offers training and support to faculty and runs the universities Active and Collaborative Engagement for Students ( ACES ) Program.

Since 1998, the university has undertaken 12 very important national projects, such as Action Plan project " Multi-media Distance Education System and Project "; Education Ministry approved large project " the Demonstrate Project of Internet Education Based on Satellite and Terrestrial Networks "; " Tenth Five-Year Plan " key project " real-time teaching system "; National Science Fund project " Study of Individual and Interactive Virtual Collaborative Learning Environment " and " Study and Application of Personality Mining in E-Learning ".

* Collaborative Networked Learning is a form of collaborative learning for the self-directed adult learner.

According to Findley ( 1987 ) " Collaborative Networked Learning ( CNL ) is that learning which occurs via electronic dialogue between self-directed co-learners and learners and experts.

" In the late 1980s Dr. Charles A. Findley headed the Collaborative Networked Learning project at Digital Equipment Corporation on the East Coast of the United States.

Findley's project conducted trend analysis and developed prototypes of collaborative learning environments, which became the basis for their further research and development of what they called Collaborative Networked Learning ( CNL ),

* Collaborative Learning Development Enables developers of learning systems to work as a network.

* Collaborative Learning in Virtual Worlds Virtual Worlds by their nature provide an excellent opportunity for collaborative learning.

Fle3 was largely developed in the Innovative Technology for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Building ( ITCOLE ) project, funded by the European Commission in the Information Society Technologies ( IST ) framework's ' School of Tomorrow ' program.

The software based on BSCW was named at first Synergeia and later BSCL ( Basic Support for Collaborative Learning ).

Future Learning Environment-Innovative Methods and Applications for Collaborative Learning.

Learning with Collaborative Software-A guide to Fle3.

Collaborative Technology for Facilitating Progressive Inquiry: Future Learning Environment Tools.

), Proceedings of the CSCL ' 99: The Third International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning on title: Designing New Media for A New Millennium: Collaborative Technology for Learning, Education, and Training ( pp. 406 – 415 ).

) Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community, Proceedings of: CSCL 2002 ( January 7 – 11, 2002, Boulder, Colorado, USA ).

* Learning with Collaborative Software-A guide to Fle3.

Distributed cognition as a theory of learning, i. e. one in which the development of knowledge is attributed to the system of thinking agents interacting dynamically with artifacts, has been widely applied in the field of distance learning, especially in relation to Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ( CSCL ) and other computer-supported learning tools.