The overall goal of the ASCOLLA project is to devise, facilitate and foster more collaborative and group-oriented learning approaches than are possible with today's technological means. ASCOLLA extends upon the research basis and outputs of the Socrates-Minerva Adaptive Learning Spaces (ALS) project. The shared scientific objectives, of the two projects can be summarized into:

• widening the range of, as well as increasing the amount of, guidance and support that ODL systems can provide to learners and instructors, and
• providing novel means to support social cohesion in groups of learners, as well as the engagement of their members in collaborative / team tasks and processes.

For a more detailed account of the project please see our objectives, what is innovative in this project, and the main points of the project's methodology.