Discusses the design and implementation of Indiana University's course management enterprise system, Oncourse. The Oncourse project provides a technical framework for the dynamic creation of Web environments and Web-based supplementary functions for every course section offered in the university. (Author)

Discussion of the Florida Learning Support Systems, being developed by schools and businesses to better utilize information technology in education, focuses on use of the Internet as background communication, or communication between applications running on different computers without human intervention to develop new kinds of instructional and…