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5. Conclud<strong>in</strong>g Remarks<br />

Figure 4: The courseware development model.<br />

The world of tomorrow will be digital. In<strong>format</strong>ion will be produced, stored and transmitted <strong>in</strong> digital form. Many tasks<br />

that are still performed manually will be performed automatically or semi-automatically. Automation will be the<br />

characteristic of tomorrow's <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion society. The new <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion technologies, especially computer networks and<br />

networked hypermedia systems, will play an important role <strong>in</strong> this evolution. It is certa<strong>in</strong> that education will not be<br />

unaffected by this evolution. Many tasks that teachers perform today will be automated tomorrow and, as the<br />

automation of <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion processes has been very successful dur<strong>in</strong>g the last decades, one can only expect that the same<br />

will happen with the automation of teach<strong>in</strong>g processes.<br />

ODL is expected to benefit the most from the evolution of new technologies. Although this sounds reasonable, it has to<br />

be proven by experimentation. This is the ma<strong>in</strong> objective of the EONT project, which addresses one particular ODL<br />

learn<strong>in</strong>g environment and one subject matter area. The f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs of EONT have to be complemented with f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs from<br />

other similar projects which will address different subject matter areas and possibly different ODL learn<strong>in</strong>g<br />

environments. Only through such a procedure can a reliable answer be found, concern<strong>in</strong>g the problem of the<br />

effectiveness of ODL supported with new <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion technologies. Such a procedure is lengthy and expensive but the<br />

quality of education deserves all the effort and the associated cost.<br />

References<br />

[Berners-Lee et al. 1994]<br />

Berners-Lee, T., Cailliau, R., Luotonen, A., Frystyk Nielsen, H., and Secret, A. (Aug. 1994). The World-Wide<br />

Web. Communications of the ACM. 76-82.<br />

[Commission 1995a]<br />

European Commission (September 1995). SOCRATES Vademecum. DGXXII Education, Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g and Youth,<br />

Office for official publications of the European Commission. Luxemburg.<br />

[Commission 1995b]<br />

European Commission (September 1995). SOCRATES: Guidel<strong>in</strong>es for Applicants - Open and Distance Learn<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

Office for official publications of the European Commission. Luxemburg.<br />

[Flohr 1995]<br />

Flohr, U. (November 1995). Hyper-G Organizes the Web. BYTE. 59-64.

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