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Telematics, the combination of communication and information technology, offers a wide range of possibilities for education. Telematics applications include e-mail, groupware, and all the possibilities of the World Wide Web (WWW). Educational insti...

Roles in online learning environments are changing towards leading learners or demand based learners if you wish. Learners do take ownership of their own learning process, and do take an active role in collaborative knowledge construction and...

In this exploratory study, students were given the choice of two forms of participation in a course. One form involved structured instructor support, in which the students were required to sub-mit work via the WWW for regular feedback from the...

At the Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente in The Netherlands, pioneer faculty members have been making innovative use of World Wide Web (WWW)-based course support sites since 1994. In 1996, seven instructors were...

We discuss problems confronting the use of group-based project work as an instructional strategy in higher education and describe two courses in which course-specific World Wide Web (Web) environments have evolved over a series of course sequences...

While the idea of reusing objects in digital learning environments is not new, continual strides are being made toward improving the prospects of reusability. A major trend in company training settings is to think of reusability in terms of a LMS ...

The Special Issue developed as a result of the ED-MEDIA '99 Pre-Conference Seminar, "Systems for World Wide Web (WWW)-Based Course Support: Technical, Pedagogical, and Institutional Options," held on June 20, 1999 in Seattle, Washington.

What is changing in terms of learning in the corporate sector and in higher education? Is the role of e-learning more or less the same, or substantially different? In what ways can these sectors learn from each other in terms of strategic, efficient,...

While the idea of reusing educational software is not new, a new wave of interest is occurring based on the idea of reusable learning objects. A major trend in company training settings is to think of reusability in terms of externally produced...

Universities and corporate training centers are under pressure to offer increasingly flexible as well as individually relevant learning. Instead of trying to develop a stream of Web-based courses to run parallel to "business as usual" courses, a...

At the Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente, in The Netherlands, the entire faculty is involved not only in the use of a new WWW-based course-management system (called TeleTOP) but more fundamentally in a new...

The acceptance, use of and impact of learning resources are influenced by culture. This article presents ten design guidelines for culture-related flexibility in WWW-based course support sites and shows how they can work in practice. Two case...

Technical developments in the compression and streaming of audio and video over networks commonly available to instructors is leading to a new cycle of interest in the educational applications of audio and video. In this new cycle, the...

New developments in educational technology at the University of Twente are providing instructors with a set of tools and templates for WWW-based course-support environments. Those templates can be used by the instructors to fill in learning...

A model for 'scaffolding by design' is implemented in a course (called ISM-2) about the fundamentals of media design for education. This model tries to combine the focus on task-performance of cognitive-apprenticeship with the fading of support of ...

In this paper we describe the design of a WWW-based course-support environment for a course in instructional-design theories, give an overview of how the environment was used as part of the course experience, and summarize the student evaluation...

After one year (1997-1998) of working extensively with our instructors, particularly all of those responsible for our first-year courses, 17 courses required for all students and several senior elective courses (3) are now using their tailored...

Based on long experience with educational software, both as developers and users, and with the use of telematics applications in educational settings, a team responsible for the implementation of more-flexible education within the Faculty of...

Based on research in ten projects in a university, corporate learning, and military context, a set of dimensions is found that can help decision makers to develop strategies for reuse (Strijker, 2004). This article describes how these dimensions and ...

We know that learning occurs in a variety of ways: through formal or instructionally designed events, informally, and incidentally. I will look at some key ideas from each of these learning settings and reflect on their application in traditional ...