Based on the concept of telecommunications as an effective means for creating a forum on school restructuring, the first video conference in a series of nine focuses on recent research on learning and describes the characteristics of successful learners from three perspectives: cognitive, philosophical, and multicultural. Provided in this guidebook are pre- and post-conference activities, a program evaluation, essays and school-based activities highlighting conference topics, information about other video conferences in the series, computer forums, course credit information, a list of supplementary materials, 39 references and 3 video sources, and a list of 9 regional resources. Bibliographic information is supplied on the conference's presenters. (LMI)