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Modelling 3D Virtual Reality Universities as analogies to traditional universities has become a convenient way to allow spatially separated students entering the area of academical distance education. They enter the 3D VRU with embodiment as...

Software development processes need to cover usability relevant information. Although several methods have been proposed how to collect usability relevant data, there is a lack of suggestions on how to deal with this information and how to ensure...

The development of web-based courses for virtual universities very often starts from a paper-based tradition of teaching and learning. Web-based learning environments, however, have an added-value by the potential of hypermedia, multimedia,...

Learning is an active and collaborative process, where people construct knowledge from their experiences in the world. People construct new knowledge with particular effectiveness when they engage in constructing personally meaningful products, that ...

The growing interest in narrative teaching models in the field of e-learning reflects the central role of narrative in cognition. Furthermore, storytelling seems to have a potentioal to fulfill requirements from situated learning theories like...

Lifelong learning denotes learning as a process, which continues after leaving school. This perspective has a far-reaching influence on conceptual design models of educational software. It regards learning as one aspect of work and opens the way...

Developers of educational material like web-based training and online courses face well known aspects of classic software development processes: Reusability of course units; Supporting cooperation and resource sharing between the members of the...

This paper is based on experiences with the production of web-based training (WBT) courses for a course of studies in medical computer science. Course production is regarded as software development process, which starts with conceptual models...

Digital game-based learning and especially serious games are seen as having a high motivational potential for learning. An instructional game dealing with a certain topic may be interesting to a learner, because he is interested in the respective...

In this paper it is argued that a holistic evaluation model is needed to cover the entire user experience, as we understand it from the theory of human-computer interaction. Therefore, only a further class of criteria must cover the design of the...