ABSTRACT
In order to help understand the role of computers in learning and teaching it is useful to have a model for what happens during the learning and teaching process. The model which I will use is Laurillard’s conversational framework (Laurillard, 1993), which describes an ideal and idealized teaching and learning scenario in terms of the activities of the teacher and the student, and media used for the interactions between the two. As well as identifying the roles of the teacher and the student, Laurillard distinguishes between the student and teacher operating at the level of descriptions and the student and teacher operating at the level of action within a ‘world’ which the teacher sets up as a model of the real-world concept being taught.
