Introduction

• Albatross: a WWW-based distance education system
  • A WWW browser
  • Overview Map: an organized road map of the whole course material
  • Guide Tool: logging and prerequisite constraints
  • Notebook: public and private notes associated with individual documents
• Does not consider the instructor/learner relationship as a whole
• Synchronous navigation
  • Concepts
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Architecture and protocol