Study on Internet University by Constructing its Basic System

The construction of Internet University has a potential to change the conventional education system. The aim of the present work has the following four items. The first item is to ascertain the speed of the data-line, the animation data delivery and the data sharing technology with XML through the system construction. The second is to find the usability and the availability of the Internet University. The third is to develop educational Web services of the Internet University. The fourth is to operate the Web services by using inexpensive ready-made tools instead of expensive special software. A small size Internet University composed of a server and two client personal computers was built for experimental study. An example of educational contents based on Microsoft Producer was successfully operated in the experimental Internet University