From the early days of
classroom computer conferencing, leaders in the field have noted the realignment
of authority when the teacher's voice becomes just one among many. The
excitement of those first observations are captured in
Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age,
edited by LeBlanc, Hawisher, and Corbett, Network-Based
Classrooms : Promises and Realities, edited by Bertram, Peyton, and Batson,
and Fragments of Rationality,
by Faigley, among others.