Although the basic idea of annotations is rather old most web material does not allow for annotat... more Although the basic idea of annotations is rather old most web material does not allow for annotations. Even if it does, annotations are usually little used. However, research shows that annotations are potentially an important part of digital libraries and particularly eLearning: they can help users to learn more easily by (collaborativ ely) adding comments, links and bookmarks, thus personalizing
In order to take a part in a particular Web-based training session learners need to work with a n... more In order to take a part in a particular Web-based training session learners need to work with a number of tools reflecting a particular training strategy. By operating these tools learners access different training objects contained in that training session. Such training objects contain relevant information for their current training task. Nowadays, modern WBT systems support dozens of different, sometimes rather complex tools and provide access to thousands of training objects. In this paper we analyze the problems of user interface that can become a rather complex one in training sessions conducted in such systems. In order to overcome such problems we provide a simple general user interface solution for these WBT systems. Further we provide an evaluation of the responses from users we gathered in applying that solution in a number of Web-based training sessions. This evaluation showed us that there is much more potential in our solution than we believed at the first resulting in the evolution of our user interface solution to a simple knowledge delivery tool. Such tool might be used to conduct training sessions that contain always the most up-to-date and the most relevant training objects residing in the system.
In this paper, we analyse a so-called access to Best-Match learning resources in a WBT environmen... more In this paper, we analyse a so-called access to Best-Match learning resources in a WBT environment. We overview existing solutions and propose a new technical solution which extends the topic map functionality with a number of important features. This solution is based on a concept of so-called knowledge cards combined into a semantic network. The mechanism essentially utilizes such important property of semantic networks as a possibility to infer Learning Resources using semantic relationships.
The presented paper clarifies the current situation at the field of the authoring and maintaining... more The presented paper clarifies the current situation at the field of the authoring and maintaining of educational applications on the Web. The paper lists well-known problems concerning the design of educational applications in general, as well as specific problems connected with educational applications meant to be published on the Web. Some comparison of widely used methods for authoring and maintaining of educational applications on the Web is, on the hand of method's advantages and disadvantages, presented as well. Thus, we propose a new approach to this specific problematic, that we believe, solves a number of problems related to the theme. This new approach to the authoring and maintaining of educational applications on the Web is based on the concept of hypermedia composites, so this concept we explain in details.
Training as a number of knowledge transfer processes utilizing advanced Internet technology to fa... more Training as a number of knowledge transfer processes utilizing advanced Internet technology to facilitate and speed the flow of knowledge to learners in a highly personalized, on-demand fashion. The key here is the use of both conventional and innovative tools compatible with current internet standards. The paper introduces an innovative application of internet technology to acquire, store, structure and transfer different types of human knowledge in a working environment. It starts with a number of typical training scenarios and shows that traditional WBT systems support only most rudimentary ones. We will demonstrate a number of concepts and tools necessary in the real training situations. Those tools are bringing together a number of disparate areas, encompassing more than what was traditionally considered simply "Web-based training". The following knowledge transfer processes are discussed: Web-based training, Web-based tutoring, Webbased mentoring, knowledge mining and knowledge profiling.
... Zahran Halim and Zaidah Razak are professors for Computer Science at Universiti Malaysia Sara... more ... Zahran Halim and Zaidah Razak are professors for Computer Science at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), have been instrumental in checking the material and ... Happy reading is what we all wish you now, k Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology/Austria. ...
Es besteht kein Zweifel, daß moderne Computertechnologien alle Bereiche der Ausund Weiterbildung ... more Es besteht kein Zweifel, daß moderne Computertechnologien alle Bereiche der Ausund Weiterbildung innerhalb der nächsten zehn Jahre nachhältigst verändern werden". Dieses Zitat stammt aus dem Jahre 1972. Wir wollen die Quelle gnädig verschweigen, wollen aber darauf hinweisen, daß ganz ähnliche Aussagen heute wieder hundertfach gemacht werden. Sind sie heute begründeter als damals? Die Antwort darauf ist ein überzeugtes "Ja". Dies liegt aber NICHT, wie so oft behauptet, daran, daß wir heute über ganz andere Multimediatechniken verfügen, sondern VORRANGIG an den Möglichkeiten der Individualisierung und der Einbringung von wertvollen kommunikativen Elementen. In diesem Beitrag werden wir erläutern, warum bisherige und zukünftige, nur auf multimedialen Komponenten beruhende Systeme bestenfalls ein Schattendasein geführt haben und weiterhin ein solches führen werden, netzorientierte Ansätze aber, die eine hinreichende Identifizierung mit einer gewissen Gruppe erreichen und gleichzeitig individuelles Arbeiten erlauben, den lang angestrebten Durchbruch im Aus-und Weiterbildungsbereich bewirken werden.
It is our experience that many Web-based training (WBT) sys-tems do not consider the latest advan... more It is our experience that many Web-based training (WBT) sys-tems do not consider the latest advances in teaching or learn-ing paradigms they simply reflect Web technology. We believe that such a technical approach to building WBT sys-tems has a number of drawbacks, ...
Discussion forums are highly popular and widely applied tools in Web-based training (WBT) systems... more Discussion forums are highly popular and widely applied tools in Web-based training (WBT) systems. Usually, discussion forums are places where learners discuss topics related to courseware, their current learning task, or the learning project they are working on. These discussion forums contain tremendous educational potential for future learners, since they contain question and answer dialogues, discussions, or examples made by
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