This paper describes the use of Java to develop a variety of educational materials to supplement both traditional instruction and Internet-based instruction. Efforts have focused on three projects that vary in course level, content, and style of interaction. Unlike the simple Java applets on the Web, these are very sophisticated simulation environments that are at the cutting edge of Java devel...

This paper presents an intelligent Information (course materials) Management System, (called AnyServer) which can serve as an Web based Learning platform (WLP) and enable course educators to easily manage and organize their teaching materials into conceptual and semantic associations among “pieces-wise of knowledge” and publish their materials in web in a “well-organized” format. Our platform i...

A pilot project introduced 12 minutes of text and video materials and a reflective online interaction about elder abuse into the online component of a hybrid course in nursing assistant training leading to certification. Didactic presentations on issues of ethics and standards had been given in two different units of the face-to-face component of the course using both the course textbook and an...

The composition of a course for e -learning platforms, through the selection and the sequencing of teaching materials (Learning Object) is a complicated process and is made manually by teachers. Target of this research is, through the study of the dependencies between topics related to the LO in Wikipedia, understanding the prerequisite and successor dependencies between materials in order to c...

Course materials for e-learning are a special type of information system (IS). Thus, in the development of educational material one may learn from principles, methods, and tools that originated in the Software Engineering (SE) discipline and that are relevant in similar ways in "Instructional Engineering". An important SE principle is mo dularization, which supports properties like reusability ...