Student - teacher relations

IT tools (new and exisiting) will support collaboration and information access support in a distributed learning environment. It should be possible to

• create personal, group, and course rooms/spaces (physical and virtual) as well as social meeting places.
  
  
• create working areas for the mentioned spaces,
  
  
• ensure communication bandwidth capacity and network functionality (QoS, Quality of Services) for chosen information contents and communication requirements,
  
  
• provide access to physical and logically shielded nets from home, company, permanent/temporary university group workplaces
  
  
• provide mechanisms for personal, methodological, course, and system developments (easy feed-back/evauation mechanisms, help functions as wizards/agents, self assessments, transparent system structure, client computer platform independence, expandable and flexible system, history recording of document and software changes, versioning, etc.),
  
  
• provide course, group and personal administration functions (e.g. planning, calendar, external database connections).