271 Educational Meadia on World Wide Web Browser

Educational Simulation of Complex Ecosystems in the World-Wide Web

This paper describes the procedure we have used to generate semiautomatically a course on Ecology for the high-school level, using an extension of the Volterra equations to describe the interaction between different species levels. The simulations used in the course have been written in our own special-purpose object-oriented continuous simulation language (OOCSMP) and also in Modelica. Our com...

Creating Educational Guided Paths over the World-Wide Web

The World-Wide Web has the potential to support education through access to extensive and encyclopedic materials. The materials must be tailored and contextualized to promote the instructional goals. To provide this contextualization, we have applied the concept of a guided path, an ordered list of pages independent of the existing Web structure. Besides creating the structure, a teacher may an...

Pan-Browser Support for Annotations and Other Meta-Information on the World Wide Web

This paper describes an innovative approach for groups to create and share commentary about the content of documents accessible via the World Wide Web. In particular, the system described supports the creation, presentation, and control of user-created meta-information, which is displayed with the corresponding documents but stored separately from them. The typical use for this mechanism is to ...

Webvise: Browser and Proxy Support for Open Hypermedia Structuring Mechanisms on the World Wide Web

This paper discusses how to augment the World Wide Web with an open hypermedia service (Webvise) that provides structures such as contexts, links, annotations, and guided tours stored in hypermedia databases external to the Web pages. This includes the ability for users collaboratively to create links from parts of HTML Web pages they do not own and support for creating links to parts of Web pa...

A Model for Relating Browser Behavior to Site Design on the World Wide Web