Sloinski (2001) felt that “education students don't have the opportunity to participate in environments that effectively integrate technology into practice. A reference made to Becker and Riel’s (2001) study from the University of California, Irvine's Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations found that “without a substantive longitudinal virtual collaboration experience, teachers will not be prepared to engage in a meaningful virtual collaborative partnership upon entering their own classrooms. Sloinski (2001) elaborated on these finding a good bit before focusing on his own, as they provide a basis for his study.

According to Sloinski (2001), who referred to a 1999 Market Data Retrieval report, “school districts, on average, spent five billion dollars on educational technology in” 1999, yet few have “yielded any significant benefit.” Despite the money spent on technology, “a recent U.S. Department of Education survey of 4,049 teachers, found that only 20 percent of classr

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