The European schoolnet. an online European community for teachers? a valuable professional resource?

@article{Leask2001TheES,
  title={The European schoolnet. an online European community for teachers? a valuable professional resource?},
  author={Marilyn Leask and Sarah Younie},
  journal={Teacher Development},
  year={2001},
  volume={5},
  pages={157 - 175}
}
Abstract This article reports on selected issues emerging from research being undertaken through ‘The Learning School’ Project – part of the European Schoolnet (EUN) Multimedia Project (MM1010). The EUN is funded jointly by the European Commission, the Ministries of Education of 20 European Countries, and the participating universities and organisations. The final report of ‘The Learning School’ project is available on the EUN website (http://www.eun.org). This article introduces some of the… 
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