Lectures have been done away with in this particular course. Reading materials come in the form of lecture notes which she retrieves twice a week from the university's network. She also gets tutorial assignments and checks if there are any new or urgent announcements from her lecturer. She even gets to do tests on the system. According to Prof Tan, the new system is 'an adventure in education' - hence its name.
Students can basically get course materials online and learn at their own pace.
Other courses release notes after the lectures, so that they can serve as revision notes. When you have a large class, it's really hard to keep track of each and every student. According to Prof Tan, edveNTUre received an average of about 31,000 page views per day during the semester. By 2003, all of NTU's large lecture classes will be a thing of the past. Set up in 1998, IVLE has 2,126 courses online currently, representing 80 per cent of the total modules.