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The "World-Wide Web" in Education
Outline
1. - Introduction: The WWW in Education
1.1 - The WWW is 3 (related) things:
1.2 - "Education" = Teaching + Learning
2. - The WWW - Purpose, basic mechanism
2.1 - Knowledge Integrator
2.2 - Universal Resource Locators (URL) & Hypertext
3. - Learning, Education & Technology
3.1 - What is learning?
Learning as the Psychologists see it:
Several kinds of learning:
3.2 - The teaching and learning environment
4. - Who needs the Web (and the Net in general) ?
4.1 - Distance Teaching, Open Learning
Distance Teaching Institutions
"Just in Time Open Learning" Providers (same issues)
Semi-Distance curricula (e.g. TECFA's postgraduate diploma)
DT Courses offered by regular institutions
4.2 - "Classical" Institutions
Class Room teaching
Departmental Research and Training Information
4.3 - All Institutions
Campus-Wide Information Systems (Virtual, DT, or classic)
General Problem: students need Net training, Internet access is expensive (rural areas!)
5. - Education on the WEB
5.1 - The "Learning Material"
The CBT view:
A general "Courseware" view, topics are:
WWW Courseware:
5.2 - The WWW as collaboration tool
Uses of asynchronous communication on the Web:
High need for synchronous CSCW extensions
New roles for "Teachers" and "fellow learners"
Teachers
Fellow learners
PS: Cooperative learning works well under certain conditions and there exist several mechanisms ( 10.3)
5.3 - An unordered list of things seen on the Web
5.4 - Levels of WWW Use (in order of difficulty)
6. - Conclusion
6.1 - Educational research is needed, e.g.
6.2 - Presently the Web needs complementary software
6.3 - So what can we do with the Web ?
6.4 - 4 aspects need to be considered:
6.5 - The Web is best used as:
7. - Appendix - Technical aspects of the WWW
7.1 - HTTP & HTML - Simple Protocols
"Hypertext Mark-Up Language" (HTML)
Server-Client negotiation (flexibility)
Stateless Connections
7.2 - The HTML language: An example
7.3 - Producing HTML: 4 strategies
7.4 - Interactive "Forms" pages - An example
7.5 - Technical Summary Remarks
"Social" Difficulties:
Technical Difficulties (summary):
General Limits of the Web
Interfacing the Web with other programs
On the Client Side
On the Server Side
WWW standards
WWW-based CMC
8. - Appendix - MUDs - Towards large multi-user educational VR
The TecfaMOO
9. - Appendix D - Get started!
9.1 - Basics
Get connected first!
WWW Clients
WWW Servers
9.2 - Introductory Bibliography
(Technical)
(Theory - only cited authors)
10. - Appendix - (Background Information on Learning)
10.1 - Learning types
Types of Learning
10.2 - Instructional Design Theory
Gagné's steps of instruction
10.3 - Mechanisms of Collaborative Learning

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