Abstract
Within the framework of the "Notebook Universities" project funded by the bmb+f, various activities for the use of notebooks in higher education have been launched at 25 universities in Germany since July 2002. These activities began with the establishment of a radio network (WLAN: Wireless-Local-Area-Access-Network) and the provision of students with notebooks. The content focus differs at the individual universities. At some universities, the focus is on content production; new learning programmes or learning arrangements are being developed to supplement or partially replace classroom teaching. At other HEIs, the focus is on developing a learning platform or portal. The eCampus Duisburg is a strategic initiative of the University of Duisburg-Essen to organise digitally reproducible services in teaching and administration consistently via the internet/intranet and to enable the use of notebooks in courses. The initiative is jointly supported by academics, central institutions and the university administration. The aim is to achieve an intelligent transition between wired and wireless services on the one hand and the linking of previously separate services on the other. The eCampus project includes a number of components that should not be seen in isolation from each other.
