TY - JOUR
T1 - Creating a virtual classroom for interactive education on the Web
AU - Dwyer, Dan
AU - Barbieri, Kathy
AU - Doerr, Helen M.
N1 - Funding Information:
In a physical classroom there is a standard set of audio-visual equipment and tools available to the instructor. These might include a chalkboard, overhead projector, video cassette player, possibly a sound system, and even the textbook. Professional instructors know how to make best use of these tools. The virtual classroom will need equivalent equipment and tools in the form of network-based software applications. Some of these virtual tools have a relatively long history on the Internet and provide obvious applications. Other are still emerging and their potential use in a virtual classroom is not yet understood. With the appropriate design, the student should be able to take advantage of these tools without leaving the comfort of their favorite Web browser interface. Some of those considered for our classroom are; * The textbook. Many courses have a textbook used to guide the direction of the course or for back-ground material. While our on-line materials pro-vide some of this function, these may sometimes not provide all of the details that a user needs. In the area of high performance computing an exam-ple of a useful electronic textbook is the Compu-tational Science Education Project ” sponsored by the US. Department of Energy. The growth of electronic publishing on the Internet should en-sure a good supply of electronic textbooks over the coming years. * The chalkboard. Even when the lecture materials are prepared in advance and made available to the student, most instructors will make use of a chalkboard for further clarification of a point. In an electronic course, the instructor might make use of the shared whiteboard offered by a tool like NCSA Collage l3 to answer a question from a student. Such tools allow images to be dis-played, manipulated, annotated, and shared be-tween two people or among a whole group.
PY - 1995/4
Y1 - 1995/4
N2 - The World-Wide Web provides new opportunities for distance education over the Internet. The Web, when combined with other network tools, can be used to create a virtual classroom to bring together a community of learners for interactive education. The Cornell Theory Center, a national center for high performance computing, is investigating the use of emerging network technologies for training computational scientists and researchers in the concepts of parallel processing. This effort is being built on electronic educational materials already on the Web and will evaluate the effectiveness of various collaborative tools.
AB - The World-Wide Web provides new opportunities for distance education over the Internet. The Web, when combined with other network tools, can be used to create a virtual classroom to bring together a community of learners for interactive education. The Cornell Theory Center, a national center for high performance computing, is investigating the use of emerging network technologies for training computational scientists and researchers in the concepts of parallel processing. This effort is being built on electronic educational materials already on the Web and will evaluate the effectiveness of various collaborative tools.
KW - Computational science
KW - Distance education
KW - High performance computing
KW - Virtual classroom
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U2 - 10.1016/0169-7552(95)00037-8
DO - 10.1016/0169-7552(95)00037-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029290134
SN - 0169-7552
VL - 27
SP - 897
EP - 904
JO - Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
JF - Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
IS - 6
ER -