The existing LearningSpace course graphics can be customised with personalised logos or artwork. A number of enhanced features does require higher performance hardware. Either a Notes client or a Web client has be used to access a LearningSpace course. Though LearningSpace offers many new and exciting ways of communicating with the student population, it has never been intended to provide necessarily a direct replacement for more traditional teaching methods. What LearningSpace does offer is a range of practical ways of actually regaining much that has been lost as student numbers have increased.
Lectures have become impersonal, so have tutorials.
It allows the student to stay in contact not only with the lecturer but also classmates both formally and informally. The first Business School pilot modules went into operation in Semester 1, 1998. CBA Marketing is part of the full time postgraduate programme offered within the Business School. To date there are over 30 trained staff within the Business School, with further training programmes planned for early 1999. The aim is to cascade training throughout the Business School before the year 2000.