They shied away from breaking up old structures to allow for more market and service orientation in German universities. But that's just one of many symptoms. But it's not just about funding. Not so, according to August-Wilhelm Scheer, director of the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Saarland . At least that's how the competition sees it.
Teaching is a service business.
To be able to serve the needs of the global information economy better, this service has to be provided partly in a digital format. Winfo-Line is not the only example. It's not even the first example. Ironically, the field was pioneered by an institution in the former communist East Germany. TU even has managed to lure students from western Germany not only onto its course pages, but also into its shabby postcommunist quarters in the crisis-ridden East.