tele-TASK Internet-Bridge Germany-China
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The Chinese version of WWW is published by Science Press in April 2008.


This project is a cooperative E-learning/Tele-teaching project between the "Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik" (HPI) of  University of Potsdam and  College of Computer Science and Technology of the Beijing University of Technology.  The teaching cooperation between Potsdam and Beijing was led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel and formally launched on 26th September 2005.  The first day's lecture of the Internet-Bridge Potsdam-Beijing is "Internet Security"  given by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel at HPI, Potsdam. This lecture has proved to be a great success start of this project. Supported by  a sophisticated Tele-teaching/e-learning technique, nearly fifty Chinese IT students in Beijing have been able to synchronously  joined the lecture with German students over the Internet.  

Internet-Bridge Potsdam-Beijing is the extension of the former cooperation project, Internet Bridge Trier-Beijing, between University of Trier and Beijing University of Technology  from  October 2002. The Internet-Bridge Potsdam-Beijing will be a regular and long term collaborative activity in the computer science education fields  between Germany and China. Also, in the framework of the Internet-Bridge Potsdam-Beijing,  two groups of Chinese students have been studied at HPI for a doctoral degree since October 2001.

On 29.10.2002, the first lecture was lauched via Internet in classroom V302 together with a warm celebration.

The technique used for recording the lectures and transmitting them over the Internet is the tele-TASK technology  which was developed at HPI. The lecture courses will end with an oral examination at HPI for German students at HPI and for Chinese students in Beijing. 

From 17.10.2006, the course "Internet Security" was launched for the new semester in Beijing University of Technology. Nearly 100 students have selected this course, and 60 of them are required to attend this course due to Beijing Olympics 2008. On every Friday evening, the students from Beijing can attend two fresh lectures from Internet.

In the winter semester 2008, the course "Internet Weaknesses and Targets" is going on for the new students in Beijing University of Technology. The first lecture was transmitted to China on 08.09.2008.