I am Kurt Maly at Old Dominion University and we are in the second year of a project on distance learning targeted for college students. I would like to hear if others have the same problem we are facing: We are spending so much effort on system development that we never seem to have time to do learning paradigm evaluation. Most of the evaluation is of the kind we get from user feedback as to what the problem with our system is and we go fix it. The platform is not stable enough for long enough periods to do any meaningful evaluation of learning experiences. On the other hand we are only in the second year. Comments? Kurt Maly