Solving some problems of University Education: A Case Study

Abstract

This article describes the problems associated with current approaches to both on-campus and distance University education and one attempt to solve these problems using an online, collaborative learning method. This method included no on-campus lectures, small group collaboration enable by face-to-face meetings and mailing lists, assignment submission via email and distribution of the subject's text book via the WWW.

The paper relates student feedback to the approach and describes the tools that were developed including

a management system for email assignment submission,
an interactive overview system to address the lost in hyperspace problem, and
system to aid in the publishing of a hypermedia textbook.

Keywords

World-Wide Web, University Education, Distance Education, Collaborative Learning

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