Classroom gets put back on the drawing board

At least one academic is not satisfied with the level of government commitment to technology in education.

"I have not really had a lot of support from the government," said Chin Tsung-shune (金重勳), president of the 4,300-student Lian Ho University (國立聯合大學) in Miaoli.

Chin said he had asked Sun Microsystems to help him design a virtual university campus on the Internet. "This is my own vision," he said.

Chin plans to conduct up to 60-percent of his institution's education through "e-learning," where teachers and students meet via their computers.