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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