INTERNET-BASED PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEMS WITH EDUCATIONAL ELEMENTS - SERVER AND NETWORK (IPSS_EE SERVER&NETWORK)

Internet-based Performance Support Systems with Educational Elements (IPSS_EE) is an innovative approach for task-performance independent eLearning and development of new instruments in instructional design of Internet-based courses for engineering education. The IPSS_EE research is under two-year project (www.ipss-ee.net) within the European program Socrates/ Minerva. Internet-based Performance Support System with Educational Elements (IPSS_EE) is an integrated electronic environment, which is available via Internet and is structured to provide individualized online access to the full range of information, guidance, advice, data, images, tools and software to permit the user to perform a task. The performance-centred approach of thinking up an educational system offers new opportunities for the educational and training organizations and calls principle changes in the instructional design of course materials. Developed IPSS_EE Environment gives up the course designers and teachers a possibility to create IPSS_EE without knowing the theory and organisation behind performance-centred approach. According to these needs, IPSS_EE server and network topology components have been chosen and described. The minimum configuration is presented, based upon the strong requirements for Server and network hardware. A system, which has to meet some, pointed in the paper criteria, was built around the specific items of protocols, concepts and software.