INTERNET SUPPORT FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN WORKGROUPS Elena Campo-Montalvo Vicente MartÃnez-Orga Nelson Medinilla-MartÃnez Daniel Meziat-Luna Abstract This paper intends to describe an ongoing experiment that provides a collaborative learning method applied to a case study in higher education. With this purpose, a computer-based support on World Wide Web is developed, by means of which, a virtual classroom environment is provided to carry out asynchronous and distributed work. This environment facilitates a time -and -space independent communication among users in order to plan groupwork sessions; this support reduces both the assessments on the part of the teacher and classroom overcrowding problems. In addition, two collaborative environments in the classroom are identified: the first one, among the members of a group and, the second one, among groups in the classroom. 1. Introduction Groupwork methods have frequently been used in business environments, where they are intended to provide a support that allows persons to work together in a faster, more efficient and productive way. The infrastructure of groupwork is articulated around the three axes showed in Figure 1 [7]: