ABSTRACT
Telepoly is a broadband real-time tele-teaching system, set up by the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zürich and Lausanne, together with the Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing in Manno, to distribute higher education curricula components.
Three years of experiment and in-depth evaluation of this system have led a variety of actors to perceive its educational potential and limits, within the perspective of their specific academic or technical roles. The lessons learnt differ between each site and each set of actors. They are a dynamic part of a wider public debate on how best to use NICT-related educational tools and build the necessary R&D steps to do so, in a variety of organisations in Switzerland.
