Fiona Lyczynska, Resolven, Neath (OnLine Trainer Course participant) An understanding and experience that cooperative learning in groups can work well online - The experiences I have had  in f2f groups (many many groups) have not been as good.  I liked the combination of some FtF sessions however, you seemed to get all the more out of them, and they were very motivating, after some weeks of working together online - everything seemed much larger than life - maybe because we had been working hard and making do with restricted stimuli online - maybe this is what I like about online also though - I think it's less stressful, plus there is the bonus of not having to go out to lectures/meetings.