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It seems desirable that learners do not only passively browse through course mate-rial, but are also able to actively work with it by adding own material, annotating existing doc-uments, creating own views of the material and exchanging documents...

The following contribution describes our present approach to the development of hypermedia materials for and by the help of students. The interactive JAVA learning and teaching environment mechado intents to illustrate the idea of developing a...

Setting up infrastructures for computer-supported cooperative learning re-quires an integrated design approach which covers a range of different aspects, such as networks, servers, teaching concepts and tools. Cooperation is an integral part of...

The primary goal of the Magellan concept is the development of individual and cooperative semantic structures on side of the students by using tools that both support and accompany the cooperative learning process. With regard to this the Magellan ...

The Paderborn Open Source Project sTeam (Information Structuring in a Team) currently develops a net based environment to assist cooperative learning in virtual communities. The following paper describes the activities of a group of students...

The WWW has developed as the de facto standard for computer based learning. As a server-centered approach it confines readers and learners to passive non-sequential reading. Authoring and web-publishing systems aim at supporting the authors' design...

Cooperative computer-based knowledge processes do not only require adequate tools to support communication, but also a technical environment to store the created structures. Based on this assumption, this paper presents a conceptual and technical...

This article aims to present the new developments and possibilities of integrating e-mail services into cooperative learning- and working environments. In the course of this, the central conceptual element is the virtual knowledge space. With the...

Mobility and location awareness are focus of current CSCL/W research. The merge of real and virtual Knowledge Spaces allows new qualities of context in collaborative learning in remote and in face-to-face cooperation. Virtual knowledge spaces can be ...

Today various collaborative document management systems for e-learning support are in the market. Although rich featured programs like e.g. shared whiteboard clients are available for these environments, users tend to use the integrated restraining...

Taking into consideration two different lines of development in the domain of computer-based learning, this paper seeks to combine a typical e-learning perspective with approaches to cooperative learning. Therefore, a three-level-approach allows to...

The curriculum of an engineering faculty naturally includes lab courses. Labs allow giving direct perception of the matter taught only theoretically in readings and seminars. Yet labs, especially labs offered simultaneously to students of more than...

Mobile environments constitute an important and promising direction of e-learning. Besides developing suitable network infrastructures (wireless networks, ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer technology, etc.), it is essential to design learning systems...

The development of infrastructures to support learning not only involves designing innovative architectures and tools; what is even more important is to subject these to a continuous process of critical evaluation in everyday practice. Theoretical...

To successfully develop and study methods for cooperative knowledge organization, we must not only develop suitable tools and theories, but in particular embed these in our daily work as educators. The key conceptual and organizational element in...

The explosion-like distribution of worldwide data networks has changed and formed our life with lasting results. Surely the education sector at our universities and schools is substantially affected by this development. Unfortunately the development ...

The initiative sTeam—structuring of information within a team—in Paderborn is devel-oping an open and co-operative platform in order to equally enable learners as well as lecturers and scientists to organise and structure knowledge in a co...

This paper defines several key requirements for successful cooperative learning, which we have elaborated during the last years with goal to set up new forms of cooperative learning. Without bringing them into a special order, these main design...

The deployment of systems supporting cooperation in teaching and learning involves more than merely using a web server. If such systems are to support not only learning processes but also the organization of courses, new approaches leading to a self-...

In a variety of learning and work processes, not only the collaborative structuring of knowledge plays an important role but also the structuring of the collaboration itself. This paper looks at the various ways of structuring collaboration in...