Learning Environment

A networked, multimedia, multinational learning enviroment, based on the new information technologies (computer networks and hypermedia systems), will be used in the experiment. The design of this enviroment closely resembles the client-server model: the instructional material will be stored in server computers and the learners will be able to access it through client multimedia computers connected to the servers via a network. For the communication between the tutors and the learners as well as between the learners themselves, communication facilities, such as e-mail and mailing lists, of modern computer networks will be used. All these facilities will be integrated in the learning enviroment, so that it will be easy for the students to use them.

The components of the specific learning enviroment to be used in the experiment are:

• the infrastructure
• the human resources
• the course instructional material