Strategic requirements for a system to generate and support WWW-based environments for a faculty.

Based on long experience with educational software, both as developers and users, and with the use of telematics applications in educational settings, a team responsible for the implementation of more-flexible education within the Faculty of Educational Science and Technology at the University of Twente derived a set of requirements integrating technical and pedagogical principles for a WWW-based course-support system for the faculty. These requirements have been realized in a system built by the team and now is use across the faculty. The paper gives the system requirements, an overview of the TeleTOP system as realized to meet the requirements, and some indicators of the accuracy of the requirements based on experiences with the broadscale use of the system