Each Study Space provides a "point-of-view" to materials on ILTweb, Columbia Web, and elsewhere on the Internet, as well as to related non-online resources. In time, these resources will be hyperlinked -- to each other, to other texts, to commentary, and to related collateral resources in many forms, including 'multimedia'. Eventually, each Study Space will provide a comprehensive online environment -- a workspace -- for pursuing scholarly inquiry relating to each Study Space's particular view.
In these virtual workspaces, users will be able to engage classic and contemporary texts, commentary, current articles and other scholars associated with many of the major sub-disciplines relating to the broad study of philosophy and communcations, particularly as they relate to education.
Each Study Space will function as a sort of hybrid pre-print exchange, publication space, editorial team, and specialist library. From within any particular Study Space, the user will be oriented towards the resources on ILTweb and on the Internet and beyond in a way that reflects the interests associated with that Space. Additionally, users will be able to share resources with others who spend time in the Space by submitting them to the editor -- users are expected to become contributors, expanding the Study Place's resource base by submitting materials for publication on ILTweb or by submitting links to related materials being developed elsewhere. In addition, Study Spaces will include technologies for direct and moderated communications among users such as listservs, chat functions, and video conferencing for additional sharing of resources and development of scholarly community.
The Study Place and its associated Spaces intends to maintain scholarly -- that is, high academic -- standards. Therefore, the editorial team at ILT reserves all rights to final editorial decisions about what appears in the Spaces; and we will work hard to sustain the highest possible quality while maintaining the broadest possible resource base.
Much of the literature users will find in the ILTweb Study Place is, itself, about study, and we hope that in working with such materials users will find themselves not only coming to new understandings of the works, but bearing them out as well. We believe users will find the Study Spaces to be extremely productive and instructive places to work and study and we welcome your participation in the digital scriptoria of the 21st century . . .
The texts in the ILT Digital Classics Series and the Digital Text Projects [Digital Text Menu] support the Study Spaces.