WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet
2000
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 328
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The Business of eLearning: Creating a Revenue Channel
Thomas Christel, United States
Online education and eLearning is the new paradigm shaping the web. In the mid-eighties, brochureware hit the web, closely followed by customer support. The next step was eCommerce for commodity ... More
p. 2
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Centre for Nursing and Health Studies an Online Perspective
James Fedorchuk & Joy Fraser, Canada
Athabasca University is one of the worlds leading open universities specializing in distance education. The Centre for Nursing and Health Studies at Athabasca University currently offers both... More
p. 3
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A definitive Online Distance Learning Model (ODL) for a TelecommunicationCompany: a Corporate Showcase
Daniel Fink, Juarez Sagebin, Paulo Mendel, Marcelo Leifheit & Alexandre Sonntag, Companhia Riograndense de Telecomunicações, Brazil
The CRT Online Distance Learning System is a multiplataform service structure created to support a new corporate media of education based on Intranet and aimed to a telecommunication company... More
p. 4
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Media Analysis Tools Workshop
William Lee, American Airlines Corporate FlagShip University, United States
How are delivery media selected in your organization? "Flavor of the month?" "What has always been done before?" "What management or the customer dictates?" Is there a certain sequence of events... More
pp. 5-10
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Tools for Online Interaction and Community Building
Phillip McCarty, eCollege.com, United States
Students are most critical of the lack of interaction when taking an online course. It is not enough to say that they will be satisfied with accessing a course online anytime and anywhere—for... More
pp. 11-12
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From Desktop to Webtop: Achieving True Computing Freedom, Anytime, Anywhere
Ken Rhie, ThinkFree, United States
This session will examine how the Internet has made dependency on operating system, location and computing device a thing of the past. The future: Internet solutions that are free to consumers... More
p. 13
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E-Learning: A Strategic Weapon in the New Millennium
Steve Zahm, DigitalThink, Inc., United States
With the breakneck speed of today's business world, staying competitive and successful depends on the knowledge and education within companies. More and more companies are turning to education as... More
p. 14
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Let Someone Else Do It Better: the New Wave Of Outsourcing
Steve Zahm, DigitalThink, Inc., United States
As the E-commerce space takes a new shape on a regular basis, companies are struggling to keep up with their IT demands. Outsourcing solutions removes the burden from a company's IT department. ... More
p. 15
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The Influence of Learning Style Preferences on Student Success in Online vs. Face-to-Face Environments
Steven Aragon, Scott Johnson & Najmuddin Shaik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
This study compared the relationship between learning style preferences and learner success of students in an online course with an equivalent face-to-face course. Comparisons included motivation... More
pp. 17-22
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PhoneChannel: Using The Web and TV to Augment The Telephone
Andrea Basso, David Goldberg, Steve Greenspan & David Weimer, AT&T Labs (research), United States
Communication and commerce by web or phone creates benefits and challenges for both buyer and seller. Websites provide convenience and visualization; telephones provide voice and real-time... More
pp. 23-28
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Effect of Streaming Video on the Decision Maker as Measured by the Analytic Hierarchy Process: An E-Commerce Case
Barbara Beccue & Joaquin Vila, Illinois State University, United States
This paper describes a research project that is investigating the effect of the inclusion of visual cues on the consistency of the decision making process as it applies to consumer purchasing... More
pp. 29-32
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Utilizing Interactive Instructional Strategies to Improve Teaching and Learning in Web-assisted Courses
John Bennett, Stephens College, United States
While the World Wide Web holds the potential to improve teaching and learning, this potential is not being fully realized by many educators now integrating Web technologies in their classroom... More
pp. 33-37
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Instructional Design Attributes of Web-Based Courses
Joy Bi, Ohio University, United States
Revitalized efforts have taken place in the fields of knowledge engineering, expert systems, and multimedia educational technology. The delivery of instruction and instructional materials changed... More
pp. 38-43
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Digitizing a Cultural Heritage - The Key Issue for Preservation and Electronic Publishing
Manfred Bogen, Christian Bonkowski, Marion Borowski & Jobst Löffler, GMD - IMK.VaS, Germany
Digitizing is the first and most important step in a preservation and electronic publishing process applied to analog information available today as text, graphics, or multimedia. In most cases, ... More
pp. 44-49
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Enhancing Interactivity for Self-Evaluation in XML-Based Courseware
Florin Bota, Fulvio Corno & Laura Farinetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
The paper describes an educational application, oriented to university students, to help them to learn the SQL language in the ambit of a course on database systems and applications. This tool is... More
pp. 50-55
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Using Multi-user Distributed Virtual Environments in Education
Christos Bouras, Computer Technology Institute, Greece; Alexandros Philopoulos, Univ. Of Patras, Greece; Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
On-line learning is one of the emerging needs of the information age. Access to education is going to become crucial for the success of our information society. Therefore a lot of potential is... More
pp. 56-62
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The Eurydices System: Objectives and Services
Kostas Bovilas, Aspasia Kanta, Christos Makris, John Tsaknakis, Athanassios Tsakalidis, Jim Prentzas, Evaggelos Sakkopoulos, Spyros Sioutas & Bill Vassiliadis, University of Patras, Greece
In this paper, we present the objectives and the services of Eurydices, an extranet-based system aiming to teach virtual classes of geographically dispersed academic participants. Eurydices has... More
pp. 63-68
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Concept-Based Courseware Engineering for Large Scale Web-based Education
Peter Brusilovsky, Carnegie Technology Education, United States
This paper describes a concept-based course maintenance system that we have developed for Carnegie Technology Education. The system can check the consistency and quality of a course at any moment... More
pp. 69-74
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Developing Web-based Tutoring Agents Using CORBA
Lilian Cao, New Jersey Institue of Technology, United States; Goldgen Bengu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
An agent-based approach is used for the design and implementation of a Web-based learning environment in general chemistry laboratory domain. By taking advantage of the common object request... More
pp. 75-80
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COMPLEX KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION IN A WEB COURSE
Ana A. Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal
Complex knowledge acquisition and transfer to new situations is always a difficult task to achieve. Cognitive Flexibility Theory principles are appropriate for complex domains and advanced ... More
pp. 81-87