Solving some problems of University Education: A Case Study

The problems

• problems with lectures
• distance education = no interaction
• on-campus + distance = 2 * workload

The subject

• a third year computing subject
• technically competent students and teacher

The learning method

• no on-campus lectures
• small collaboration via email or face-to-face
• textbook distributed via WWW
• assignment submission via email

Hypermedia textbook

Email assignment submission

Group communication

Experiences

• positive with some problems to fix
• more positives for distance students
• teaching and administration methods must change

Future work

• further development of tools
• production of an integrated online learning environment