Delivering Relevant Training Objects to Personal Desktop with Modern WBT-Systems

Helic, Denis

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Delivering Relevant Training Objects to Personal Desktop with Modern WBT-Systems

Helic, D. (2004). Delivering Relevant Training Objects to Personal Desktop with Modern WBT-Systems. International Journal on E-Learning, 3(2), 42-50. Norfolk, VA: AACE.
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International Journal on E-Learning
ISSN 1537-2456
Volume 3, Issue 2, 2004
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Norfolk, VA

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Denis Helic, IICM, TU Graz, Austria

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"** Invited as a paper from ED-MEDIA 2002 **" To participate in a particular Web-based training session students work with a number of tools reflecting a particular training strategy. By doing so they access different training objects containing relevant information for their current training task. Since modern WBT systems support dozens of different, sometimes rather complex tools and provide access to thousands of training objects students are often confronted with a complex user interface, to say at least. Moreover, users who prepare training sessions for modern WBT systems, that is, authors and tutors experience similar problems of a complex, inscrutable user interface. This paper describes a simple general WBT user interface solution that we developed in order to overcome such problems. Additionally, the paper provides an evaluation of the responses from users that we gathered after we applied that solution in one modern WBT system – WBT-Master. This evaluation showed us that there was 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. By applying this tool in our training sessions we achieved the following. Only the most relevant and up-to-date training objects residing in the system could become a part of our training sessions. Moreover, these training objects were always accompanied with conceptual maps describing their relationships with other training objects in the system.

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Helic, D., Lennon, J., Maurer, H. & Scerbakov, N. (2001). Aspects of a modern WBT system. Proceedings of the International Conference On Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, and Medicine on the Internet, SSGRR 2001. CD-Rom Publication, Paper 38. (ISBN: 88-85280-61-7)
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Helic, D., Maurer, H., & Scerbakov, N. (2002). Aspects of collaborat ive author ing in WBT systems. Proceed ings of the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science and Medicine on the Internet, SSGRR 2002, Paper 37. CD-Rom Publication (ISBN: 8885280-62-5)
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[1] Andrews, K., Nedoumov, A., & Scerbakov, N. (1995). Embedding courseware into internet: Problems and solutions. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA'95, (pp.69-74). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

[2] Borgida, A. (1986). Conceptual modeling of information systems. In M.L. Brodie & J. Mylopoulos (Eds.), On knowledge base management systems. New York: Springer-Verlag.

[3] Burke, R., Hammond, K., & Young, B. (1996). Knowledge-based navigation of complex information spaces. Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (pp.

[4] Dietinger, T., Gütl, C., & Pivec, M. (1999). Meeting the needs of the collaborative information society through targeted informa- t ion re t r ieva l . P roceed ings o f the

[5] Dietinger, T., & Maurer, H. (1997). How modern WWW systems support teaching and learning. In Z. Halim, T. Ottmann, & Z. Razak (Eds.), Proceedings of ICCE 97, Kuching, Sarawak Malaysia, December 2-6, (pp. 37–51).

[6] Dietinger, T., & Maurer, H. (1998). GENTLE – (GEneral Networked Training and Learning Environment). In Proceedings of ICCE’97, Kuching, Malaysia, (pp. 37-51). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

[7] Gaines, B.R., Norrie, D.H. & Shaw, M. (1996). Foundations for the learning web. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA'96: World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Gaines, B.R., & Shaw, M. (1997). Institutional transformations to a learning web. In T. Müldner & T.C. Reeves (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-Media/ED-Telecom, the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

[8] Helic, D., Lennon, J., Maurer, H. & Scerbakov, N. (2001). Aspects of a modern WBT system. Proceedings of the International Conference On Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, and Medicine on the Internet, SSGRR 2001. CD-Rom Publication, Paper 38. (ISBN: 88-85280-61-7)

[9] Helic, D., Maurer, H., & Scerbakov, N. (2001a). Accessing bestmatch learning resources in WBT environment. Proceedings of ED-MED IA 2001. Char lottesv i l le, VA: Assoc iat ion for the Advancement of Computing in Education. (2001b). Knowledge

[10] Helic, D., Maurer, H., & Scerbakov, N. (2001c). Mentoring sessions: Increasing the influence of tutors on the learning process in WBT systems. Proceedings WebNet 2001, (pp. 515-519). Char lottesv i l le, VA: Assoc iat ion for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

[11] Helic, D., Maurer, H., & Scerbakov, N. (2002). Aspects of collaborat ive author ing in WBT systems. Proceed ings of the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science and Medicine on the Internet, SSGRR 2002, Paper 37. CD-Rom Publication (ISBN: 8885280-62-5)

[12] Lambiotte, J.G., Dansereau, D.F., Cross, D.R., & Reynolds, S.B. (1984). Multirelational Semantic Maps. Educational Psychology Review, 1(4), 331-367.

[13] Minsky, M. (1968). Semantic information processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[14] Nosek, J.T., & Roth, I. (1990). A comparison of formal knowledge representation schemes as communication tools: Predicate logic versus semantic network. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 33, 227-239.

[15] Shaw, M., & Gaines, B.R. (1996). Experience with the learning web. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA'96: World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Sowa, J.F. (1984). Conceptual structures: Information processing in mind and machine. Boston: Addison-Wesley Longman. Sowa, J.F.

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