ABSTRACT
This chapter taking courses in Web-based instruction through university, including a weeklong summer faculty institute at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The Online Graduate Research Training Institute, one of the many interrelated Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) projects. Participants were to demonstrate capability of searching for relevant material, summarizing it, arranging it by themes, and relating it to research. This Online Institute was framed by three broad overarching goals to: (a) invite African American doctoral students to reconceptualize educational research and the educational research community using the World Wide Web; (b) foster collaborative, interactive and perhaps lifelong academic relationships among Black doctoral students working on interrelated issues in African American education, and (c) provide opportunities for dialogue between African American graduate students and scholars doing innovative work. They had overlooked this "technophobia". Paradoxically, the Online Institute was designed to engender community beyond institutional borders. The Online Institute precipitated their interest in educational discourses of technological literacies.
