ABSTRACT

Turkey has initiated a project for setting up a computer mediated communication network among 53 secondary schools. This project is running under the control of National Ministry of Education, Department of Information Technology in Education (DITE). Financial support is supplied by the World Bank. With the installation of 53 schools equipment, each school will have basic equipment and software participate in a computer-mediated communications network. Establishing such a network could be a part of a cost-effective strategy for providing both technological and pedagogical support to those schools. In this paper. Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) project for secondary schools in Turkey will be presented along with its details, experiences, technical and administrative problems, political concerns, user support, training and assessment.