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This paper investigates the construction of a WWW-enabled course support environment for learner-centered education. The system is designed to encourage students' responsibility, to make learning meaningful, and to support active knowledge construction in the specific curriculums of their study. This system, currently named REAL, carries the connotation of a Rich Environment for Active Learning, whose pedagogy comes from the constructivist's theory of learning. REAL facilitates the interaction among students and teachers by two notions. The first is maintaining a course-specific Web-site for students to look up course-related information. The second is providing a collaborative Web-based service with which students could initiate query requests through using specific inquiry Web-page, which acts as an interactive medium for teachers and students to exchange ideas, record actions, use e-mails, and upload/download files. Each interaction is captured asynchronously and maintained in a searchable archive for other students' reference. The REAL system, developed through the use of iterative prototyping, provides feedback for perceived learning. The paper also discusses lessons learned for teachers developing REAL, in the reflection of instructional methods, as well as some future development of the environment.