university education continues to be revolutionized by the use of web-based teaching and learning systems. following on from the digital university: reinventing the academy, this book provides a fully up-to-date and practical guide to using and implementing this important technology. looking specifically at asynchronous collaboration, it covers:- policies- management of collaboration- distance learning- support for authoring- course design- educational metadata schemaand will be an essential buy for managers, lecturers, administrators, department heads and researchers.it includes a foreword by ben shneiderman, director of the hci laboratory at the university of maryland, usa.