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Hermann Maurer
IICM, TU Graz
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Hermann Maurer
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Changes in Life and Education: You have seen Nothing yet
Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2399–2400
Computers are going to continue to evolve at very high speed. The omnipresent computer that acts very much as extension of the human brain is less than ten years away. This will clearly influence society, and particularly education. How much and...
Topics: Computers
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What Have we Learnt in 15 Years About Educational Multimedia?
Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2–9
This talk consists of three parts: First, I start with a brief review of the history of multimedia in education as we have experienced it since the first ED-MEDIA I will argue that the progress in handling media has helped, but that the major...
Topics: Educational Technology
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HWONS: A Hyerwave Online Negotiation System
Jennifer Lennon; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 573–577
We have developed a Web-based negotiation system that is closely modeled on real-world transactions. In this paper we illustrate the generality of the system by discussing two disparate applications of the system: one taken from business and the...
Topics: Business
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Current Development of Mashups in Shaping Web Applications
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1172–1177
The WWW is currently experiencing a revolutionary growth due to its numerous social software. This paper highlights an emerging application development paradigm on the WWW, called mashups. As blogs have enabled anyone to become a publisher, mashups...
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A New Approach - Situation Learning (SL)
Maja Pivec; Hermann Maurer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1472–1477
The presented solution offers a new approach to knowledge module presentation that is different from the majority of presently used approaches. The interactive component of the SL approach increases students' involvement and motivation for...
Topics: Interaction
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Lecturing Technology: A Future with Hypermedia
Jennifer Lennon; Hermann Maurer
Educational Technology Vol. 34, No. 4 (1994) pp. 5–14
Examines methods of lecturing in the past, including blackboards, whiteboards, flip charts, and overhead transparencies; discusses the increasing use of computer technology and specifications for future systems; and describes possible scenarios for...
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A Child's CanDo Assistant
Jennifer Lennon; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1430–1437
In this paper we investigate whether it is possible to use visual instructions/communication instead of verbal rules to help children learn some classic activities. We are not intending to prove that the visual alternatives we propose are "better"...
Topics: Children, Communication
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DynEST - Dynamically Explained Symbols for Traffic Or Learning How to Drive Without Words
Petra Korica; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 829–835
Traffic signs and rules play an important role in our daily life. Knowledge of them is crucial for surviving. However, every country has its own traffic regulations and they often differ in subtle ways. Also, the official traffic regulations are...
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Wikis and other E-communities are Changing the Web
Hermann Maurer; Wolfgang Schinagl
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2858–2866
In this paper we will argue that WWW is currently going through a revolutionary phase, not because of technology but because of applications. Many are talking about Web 2.0 when they refer to those changes. Although Weblogs (blogs) and Wikis are the ...
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E-Quiz - A Simple Tool to Enhance Intra-Organisational Knowledge Management eLearning and Edutainment Training
Hermann Maurer; Wolfgang Schinagl
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1080–1088
It has become increasingly necessary to motivate and actively involve users to provide quality feedback for the development of future versions of applications and services within whatever institution is at issue. For this purpose we have developed...
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Situation Learning: A New Approach to Knowledge Mediation
Hermann Maurer; Maja Pivec
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1254–1259
Situation Learning (SL) is a new hypermedia knowledge module for on- and off-line use. The presented solution offers a new approach to knowledge module presentation that is different from the majority of presently used approaches. The interactive ...
Topics: Interaction
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Is the Web Turning Us into Dummies?
Hermann Maurer; Klaus Tochtermann
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 2524–2534
With the rapid penetration of the Web into all areas and niches of society there is also an increasing number of warning voices: that the Web leads to more and more plagiarism; to the spreading of half-truths; to mobbing with sometimes deadly...
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Coping With the Copy-Paste-Syndrome
Hermann Maurer; Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1071–1079
The Copy-Paste Syndrome describes a situation whereby students at all levels are becoming more and more reliant on wide-range of easily-available digital content. This is a universal problem that has to be addressed effectively, especially with the...
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Multitasking in a Managed Learning Environment
Jennifer Lennon; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2773–2776
There is considerable evidence that children and adults are, more than ever before, multitasking within learning environments (both academic and corporate). Although, in some situations this can be beneficial, there is also considerable evidence...
Topics: Virtual Environments, Learning Outcomes
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Beyond Wikipedia
Hermann Maurer; Christian Safran
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4444–4450
Wikipedia and Google are probably the two most powerful 'portals' for information on the Web today. Google is 'just' a search engine very well tuned: it indexes a vast number of documents and does a good job ranking them, hence outperforming all...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Is the Web Making Us into Dummies?
Hermann Maurer; Klaus Tochtermann
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology Vol. 2013, No. 1 (Jun 27, 2013)
With the rapid penetration of the Web into all areas and niches of society there is also an increasing number of warning voices: that the Web leads to more and more plagiarism; to the spreading of half-truths; to mobbing with sometimes deadly...
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E-Learning Has to be Seen as Part of General Knowledge Management
Hermann Maurer; Marianne Sapper
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1249–1253
In this paper we will argue that mankind is just about to take one more big developmental step due to continued progress in information and communication technology. Current and further developments are making huge bodies of knowledge available to ...
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Can Microblogs and Weblogs change traditional scientific writing?
Martin Ebner; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 768–776
The lecture “Social Aspects of Information Technology” has a long tradition by using new didactical scenarios as well as modern e-Learning technologies. After using a blogosphere one year ago, this year microblog channels help to expand the...
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Blogging in Higher Education
Martin Ebner; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 767–774
This paper describes a Web2.0 approach to distant teaching a master course for students of informatics on Graz University of Technology. The course has been implemented by using a blogosphere for writing and collaborating. Students were able to...
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How to use the Web's information flood for teaching
Hermann Maurer; Mueller Heimo
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3103–3108
In this paper we concentrate on the question how we can retrieve reliable information from the Web as source for knowledge in teaching and learning: The use of search engines has a number of dangers which together with potential remedies we will...
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Plagiarism - A Problem And How To Fight It
Hermann Maurer; Bilal Zaka
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4451–4458
The continued growth of information on the WWW and in databases is making plagiarism by copying, possibly followed by some modification, more and more tempting. Educational institutions are starting to fight this by a bundle of measures: (a) by...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Research Trends in the Field of E-Learning from 2003 to 2008: A Scientometric and Content Analysis for Selected Journals and Conferences Using Visualization
Hermann Maurer; Muhammad Salman Khan
Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 7, No. 1 (2010) pp. 5–18
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a scientometric and content analysis of the studies in the field of e-learning that were published in five Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals ("Journal of Computer Assisted Learning,...
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First experiences with VR-Friends: Three Effects of Improving Web-Based Training.
Hermann Maurer; Wolfgang Schinagl; Andreas Holzinger
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) p. 1683
We present a new web-based learning software that uses three basic psychological effects: incidental learning, increased motivation and technique we call the "Tamagotchi-Effect". This software is called "VR-Friends" and represent a kind of...
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Glimpses at the Future of Networked Hypermedia Systems
Michael Klemme; Hermann Maurer; Achim Schneider
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 5, No. 3 (1996) pp. 225–238
We have experienced the rapid proliferation of world-wide networked hypermedia systems such as Gopher, WWW, and Hyper-G on the Internet, particularly in institutions concerned with education and research. Despite the great popularity of these...
Topics: Multimedia, Networking Technologies
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E-Learning Strategy for South East European University to Enable Borderless Education
Bekim Fetaji; Denis Helic; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2557–2569
In this paper we present a strategy for implementing E-Learning at South East European University. The developed strategy takes into account the University's mission in achieving a so-called borderless education within the regional Balkans context,...
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Trends Discovery in the Field of E-Learning with Visualization
Muhammad Salman Khan; Martin Ebner; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 4408–4413
In this paper we have performed a content analysis using a collection of papers from Ed-Media conferences archive. Various current trends in research topics, change of interest in contributions from across the world in the field of e-learning have...
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Extending Annotations to Make them Truly Valuable
Petra Korica; Hermann Maurer; Nick Scerbakov
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2149–2154
Research shows that annotations are potentially an important part of digital libraries and particularly eLearning: they can help users to learn more easily by adding comments, links and bookmarks, thus personalizing web material to fit specific...
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A User Interface and Knowledge Delivery Solution for a Modern WBT System
Hermann Maurer; Nick Scerbakov; Denis Helic
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 753–758
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 ...
Topics: Training
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Beyond Over-Integration: GENTLE
Hermann Maurer; Klaus Schmaranz; Thomas Dietinger
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 1772–1778
In this paper we show that a good WBT platform has to provide structured courseware as well as good online and offline discussion features. Nevertheless it is not possible to fully integrate special online conferencing tools although they must be...
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AEIOU - The Development and Presentation of a Multimedia National Project
Hermann Maurer Graz University of Technology
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1998 (1998) p. 29
The 5 letters AEIOU are found over the entrance of Austria's most famous gothic cathedral, St.Stephan's in Vienna. Nobody really knows what they stood for. Some say they stood for "Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima" (Latin) meaning something like "Austria ...
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Accessing Best-Match Learning Resources in WBT Environment
Denis Helic; Hermann Maurer; Nick Scerbakov
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 726–727
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....
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Libraries of Interactive Books as Powerful Tool for Information Communication
Hermann Maurer; Namik Delilovic; Bilal Zaka
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1353–1359
In this paper we argue that by using software that allows to add all kinds of interactions and media to digital books we can create what we will call interactive books (IBs for short) that are attractive to use for many purposes of information...
Topics: Participatory learning and media
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An Analysis of Application of Business Process Management Technology in E-Learning Systems
Denis Helic; Janez Hrastnik; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2937–2942
Generally, the current E-Learning systems concentrate on individual learning tasks rather than on a learning process. However, learning situations as we observed them in practice are generally process-oriented. Thus, support for such process...
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SEMantic Internet Education (SEMIE) Tool
Petra Korica-Pehserl; Martin Fenyö; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 442–450
SEMIE – SEMantic Internet Education is a browser-like tool offering a new modern way of learning using Internet for getting newest information and social media functionality but also incorporating traditional eLearning methods like usage of SCORM...
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New Features for eLearning in Higher Education for Civil Engineering
Martin Ebner; Nikolai Sherbakov; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 635–642
This paper describes an eLearning approach to distant teaching a master course for civil engineering students. The course has been implemented using a novel eLearning system, called WBT-Master. Typical learning platforms provide only standard tools...
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How to Make Discussion Forums Work on the WWW
Hermann Maurer; Norbert Rozsenich; Marianne Sapper
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 717–722
It has often been claimed that networks like the WWW must not be seen just as huge distributed information systems, but rather also as systems that allow transactions, cooperation and communication. In this paper we discuss the technical features ...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Distance Education, Achievement
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Authoring and Maintaining of Educational Applications on The Web
Hermann Maurer; Nick Scherbakov; Denis Helic
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 1792–1797
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...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Mobile Information Access in Higher Education
Martin Ebner; Nicolai Scerbakov; Christian Stickel; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 777–782
This paper describes the implementation and integration of a m-Learning interface into the existing University-wide e-Learning System. Thereby existing content and information from the e-learning environment is automatically styled and provided in a ...
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TRIANGLE: A Multi-Media test-bed for examining incidental learning, motivation and the Tamagotchi-Effect within a Game-Show like Computer Based Learning Module
Andreas Holzinger; Arnold Pichler; Wolfgang Almer; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 766–771
At first sight, "TRIANGLE" appears to be just another piece of learning software but it is much more than this, it is an experimental test-bed for examining motivational factors in computer based training. Such a multi-media application derives its...
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Why do Standards in the Field of E-Learning not fully support learner-centred Aspects of Adaptivity?
Felix Mödritscher; Christian Gütl; Victor Manuel Garcia Barrios; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2034–2039
As a pre-study for AdeLE (Adaptive e-Learning with Eye Tracking), a research project with the aim to develop and implement a solution framework for personalized adaptive e-learning based on real-time user behaviour, this paper examines the learner...
Topics: Standards
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Implementing Project-Based Learning in WBT Systems
Denis Helic; Harald Krottmaier; Hermann Maurer; Nick Scerbakov
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 2189–2196
It is our experience that many Web-based training (WBT) systems do not take into account the latest advancements in teaching or learning paradigms – they simply reflect Web technology. We believe that such a technical approach to building WBT...
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Click, Click - and an Educational Presentation Is Available on the Web
Christoph Trattner; Denis Helic; Petra Korica-Pehserl; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3932–3938
We present a simple to handle tool that allows users to pick an arbitrary set of Web pages and put them together into a presentation, adding own remarks, changing the order at will, and allowing access to the presentation by the public or just a...
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Learner-Formulated Questions in Technology-Supported Learning Applications
Eva Heinrich; Russell Johnson; Daoshui Luo; Hermann Maurer; Marianne Sapper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 720–725
In this paper we look at learner-formulated questions in technology-supported learning applications. Traditionally, technology-supported learning applications request input from the learner. The learner's response is used to assess the knowledge of...
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An Associative Repository for the Administration of Course Modules
Christian Eller; Christian Gütl; Hermann Maurer; Maja Pivec; Thomas Dietinger
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 295–300
One of the main difficulties in the area of web based training systems are expensiveness and great efforts that have to be invested in production of good courseware modules. While the problem of creating new pages cannot be solved easily, costs...
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Topic-Centered Aggregation of Presentations for Learning Object Repurposing
Bilal Zaka; Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer; Wolf-Tilo Balke; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3335–3342
Large collections of learning content, developed using applications such as Microsoft Powerpoint can be found in numerous institutions and organizations. The reusability of such custom-made learning content are however not supported in traditional...
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Game-based E-Learning Applications of E-Tester
Christian Guetl; Heinz Dreher; Robert Williams; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4912–4917
Adaptive E-Learning systems may be a supportive solution for a wide range of learning applications. In order to complement common learning paradigms in computer-based education the digital game-based learning paradigm is an interesting alternative,...
Topics: Games, Assessment, Educational Technology
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Interactive Computer Assisted Formulation of Retrieval Requests for a Medical Information System using an Intelligent Tutoring System
Andreas Holzinger; Andreas Kainz; Guenther Gell; Max Brunold; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 466–471
A medical information system at Graz University contains three millions of diagnostic reports, which form the basis of patient care and of scientific work. Complex retrieval systems are prepared in a time consuming dialogue between clinical...
Topics: Interaction, Human Computer Interaction, Learning Management Systems
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The Use of a Dynamic Background Library within the Scope of adaptive e-Learning
Felix Mödritscher; Victor Manuel Garcia-Barrios; Hermann Maurer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 3045–3052
The concept of a Dynamic Background Library (DBL) is well-known in literature and applied for several application areas. As it is planned to use a DBL within the scope of the research project AdeLE, a first prototype named EHELP was developed and...
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Dinopolis - A Leading Edge Application Framework for the Internet and Intranets
Christof Dallermassl; Heimo Haub; Hermann Maurer; Klaus Schmaranz; Philipp Zambelli
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 111–116
Dinopolis is at the moment the most universal and extendable application frame- work available. It is fully written in Java and fully compliant to today's application standards like Corba, RMI, DOM and XML. As a middleware system it provides...
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Enabling Project-Based Learning in WBT Systems
Denis Helic; Harald Krottmaier; Hermann Maurer; Nick Scerbakov
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 4, No. 4 (2005) pp. 445–461
** Invited as a paper from E-Learn 2003 ** It is our experience that many Web-based training (WBT) systems do not consider the latest advances in teaching or learning paradigms – they simply reflect Web technology. We believe that such a...
Topics: Teaching paradigms