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These reports were written by a team of local volunteers: Angela Merino, Assina Bounis, Celia Boyer, Eric Bianchi, Irčne Butor, Julian Albert Kilker and Melisa Makzume. The reports summarise information for people not able to attend the sessions. Their comprehensiveness and accuracy are not guaranteed. For more information, please contact the presenters directly. Their e-mail addresses are available at http://www.isoc.org/inet98/program.shtml

Track 4: Teaching and Learning

Session: How to Grow Courseware

By Angela Merino, 22 July 1998

School of the Internet: A University on the Internet

Keiko Okawa, KEIO University, Japan

The authors consider the Internet as a new infrastructure for society. They proposed and designed a new model for the university environment. In October 1997, they started the School on the Internet (SOI) as a prototype of the model. A SOI has the following requirements: multidisciplinary curriculum, wide rang of "good" teaching staff, an Internet department, lifelong learning and active learning.

The SOI they built is based on the implementation of three components: a lecture-on-demand system, an assignment system to support collaborative learning and an Internet student course survey. They built an open system where students take courses at home using video-audio, slides and the web.

They evaluated the SOI using surveys and concluded that the system satisfied the conditions of feasibility, usability and scalability. Feasibility is satisfied because courses from a traditional university can easily be put onto the Internet using video-audio, slides and the web. Usability is verified because users are satisfied with the system. They consider that the "assignment system" and the openness of the system help them to learn more.

On-going experiments include the following: final examination system, certificate, office hours, distributed SOI server.

Links for further information: http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/soi/  

Comments from the audience:

There are not enough teachers to follow the students taking courses through SOI. The authors, then, emphasise the practice of collaborative learning between students. Somebody from the audience working on distance learning mentioned that SOI can work for professionals such as school teachers of school, but it is not sure that it could work with young people.

The problem of certification in distance learning programs still needs to be solved.

Sound and quality of voice are important in SOI.