Incorporating a Rich Media Presentation Format into a Lecture-Based Course Structure.

In 1995 the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill created an intranet system to provide support at several levels in the school's operations. At the administrative level these operations included the management of complex tasks such as class scheduling and admissions management. At the clinical level the system would be used to organize a new computerized patient records system and provide access to a digital X-ray imaging system. At the educational level the system was envisaged as a means to create a Web-based structure for the DDS curriculum. This structure took the form of an electronic syllabus, or e-syllabus.