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1998
Report
Titel
The IDEAL MTS Integrator of Distributed Knowledge and Expertise
Abstract
Teaching and training and by this the development of the knowledge and expertise of individuals and institutions can be effectively supported by provision and management of attractive, effective, progress-reporting, guided, modular, selfcontaind, and selfdescribing courseware in an appropriately layered courseware architecture. Courseware is knowledge and expertise coded as interactive software and data objects. Attractive courseware integrates the learner into a challenging dialog and presents itself in intuitively understandable, multimedia formats. Effective courseware adapts to the learners interests, knowledge, and expertise and implements aproved didactic strategies. It adapts to the learners by reporting the learners' progress to individual learner profiles and by making use of this information. Modularity, selfcontainedness and selfdescriptions allow multiple-use of courseware and thus experience exchange exchange and last ot least cost sharing. As the result of two consecutive cross-European projects (DEDICATED and IDEALS) with a duration of 5 1/2 years in total and personal efforts of more than 60 person-years, a Web-based, open courseware has been developed and installed. This environment allows the distributed production, the integration and common usage od courseware. The IDEALS MTS is described here in order to explain its functionality and to encourage institutions of higher education and research as well as industry to join this knowledge pool actively.
Verlagsort
Darmstadt