Building University Electronic Educational Environments: IFIP TC3 WG3.2/3.6 International Working Conference on Building University Electronic Educational Environments August 4–6, 1999, Irvine, California, USA

276 Pages·2000·11.007 MB·English

by  Bernard Levrat (auth.), Stephen D. Franklin, Ellen Strenski (eds.)

BUILDING UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC
EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
IFIP -The International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the First World
Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. An umbrella organization for societies
working in information processing, IFIP's aim is two-fold: to support information
processing within its member countries and to encourage technology transfer to developing
nations. As its mission statement clearly states,
IFIP's mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which
encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of information
technology for the benefit of all people.
IFIP is a non-profitmaking organization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers. It operates
through a number of technical committees, which organize events and publications. IFIP's
events range from an international congress to local seminars, but the most important are:
• The IFIP World Computer Congress, held every second year;
• open conferences;
.. working conferences.
The flagship event is the IFIP World Computer Congress, at which both invited and
contributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the
rejection rate is high.
As with the Congress, participation in the open conferences is open to all and papers may
be invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed.
The working conferences are structured differently. They are usually run by a working
group and attendance is small and by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an
atmosphere conducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is less rigorous and
papers are subjected to extensive group discussion.
Publications arising from IFIP events vary. The papers presented at the IFIP World
Computer Congress and at open conferences are published as conference proceedings, while
the results of the working conferences are often published as collections of selected and
edited papers.
Any national society whose primary activity is in information may apply to become a full
member of IFIP, although full membership is restricted to one society per country. Full
members are entitled to vote at the annual General Assembly, National societies preferring
a less committed involvement may apply for associate or corresponding membership.
Associate members enjoy the same benefits as full members, but without voting rights.
Corresponding members are not represented in IFIP bodies. Affiliated membership is open
to non-national societies, and individual and honorary membership schemes are also offered.
BUILDING
UNIVERSITY
ELECTRONIC
EDUCATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTS
IFlP TC3 WG3.2/3.6 International Working Conference on
Building University Electronic Educational Environments
August 4-6.1 1999.1 Irvine, California, USA
Edited by
Stephen D. Franklin
University of California, Irvine
USA
Ellen Strenski
University of California, Irvine
USA
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SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
IFIP TC3 WG3.2/3.6 International Working Conference on Building University
Electronic Educational Environments (1999: Irvine, Calif.)
Building university electronic educational environments : IFIP TC3 WG3.2/3.6
International Working Conference on Building University Electronic Educational
Environments, August 4-6, 1999, Irvine, California, USA / edited by Stephen D.
Franklin, Ellen Strenski.
p. cm. - (International Federation for Information Processing; 38)
Includes bibliographicaI references.
ISBN 978-1-4757-4694-5 ISBN 978-0-387-35502-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-35502-3
1. Distance education-Computer-assisted instruction-Congresses. 2.
Telecommunication in higher education-Congresses. 3. Internet (Computer network)
in education-Congresses. 4. World Wide Web-Congresses. 1. Franklin, Stephen
D. II. Strenski, Ellen, 1942- III. International Federation for Information Processing.
IV. Title. V. International Federation for Information Processing (Series); 38.
LC5803.C65.I3522000
00-025364
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Contents
Foreword IX
BERNARD LEVRAT
Introduction Xlll
STEPHEN D. FRANKLIN AND ELLEN STRENSKI
The Swiss Virtual Campus: Present Situation and Challenges 1
BERNARD LEVRAT
Experiences with a Hybrid Distance Education Model in Central and
Eastern Europe 17
CZESLAW JAN GRYCZ
Munics: Multimedia for Problem-Based Learning in Computer Science 37
PAMELA TRONDLE, HEINZ MANDL, FRANK FISCHER, JORGEN
HARTMUT KOCH, JOHANN SCHLICHTER, AND GUNNAR TEEGE
The Design of a Flexible Hypermedia System 51
ALFREDO FERNANDEZ-V ALMA YOR, COYA DONGA LOPEZ-ALONSO,
ARLETTE SERE, AND BALTASAR FERNANDEZ-MANJON
VirtualBusinessTeams for Professional Development and Team
Learning 67
W. VAN PETEGEM, P. SLOEP, J. GERRISSEN, D. JANSEN, AND
R. SCHUWER
vi
Panel on Lifelong Learning 79
P. FISSER, E. STACEY, T. J. VAN WEERT, J. WIBE, C. FULFORD,
U. FULLER, AND F. DE VRIES
TC3 Task Force on Lifelong Learning 91
J. WIBE
IT-Innovation 101
LONE DIRCKINCK-HOLMFELD AND ANNETTE LORENSTEN
Re-engineering University Services to Manage ICT in Education 115
PETRA FISSER, MICHIEL V AN GELOVEN
Meeting Diverse User Needs 125
RICHARD J ONES, DAVID BECKETT, AND SALLY FINCHER
Creating Web-based Scenarios to Support Distance Learners 141
M.F. VERDEJO, M. RODRIGUEZ-ARTACHO, J.I. MAYORGA,
M.Y. CALERO
CATWEB: A Tool for Developing Courses for the Web and from the
Web 155
LUIS ANIDO, MARTIN LLAMAS, MANUEL FERNANDEZ AND JUAN
BURGUILLO
Combined Research and Curriculum Development of Web and
Java Based Educational Modules with Immersive
Virtual Environments 169
RONALD D. KRIZ, RANDY T. LEVENSALOR, AND SANJIV D.PARIKH
Moving towards an Effective Electronic Training Environment 187
VICKI LOWERY
Building Electronic Educational Environments: Why,What and How? 201
TOM J. V AN WEERT AND BAUKE V AN DER W AL
Assessing Instructional Technology 217
LAWRENCE M. BALDWIN, PANAGIOTIS T. METAXAS, AND
WINIFREDJ. WOOD
Better Learning Online? 233
WERNER BEUSCHEL, ALFRED BORK, CHRIS HUGHES,
TIMOTHY G. MCMAHON, PETER SERDIUKOV, ELIZABETH STACEY
vii
Commonalities and Differences in Electronic Educational
Environments 253
WENDY DOUBE
Participants in the 1999 IFIP WG3.2 and WG3.6 International
Working Conference on Building University Electronic
Educational Environments 271
Foreword
The Internet and the World Wide Web are deeply affecting the way
things are traditionally done. E-commerce is changing businesses; the stock
market is accessible to individuals; digitized journals, up-to-date databases,
and newsgroups are changing the lives of researchers. Is it reasonable to
think that learning will remain unaffected? Nevertheless, universities, with
their blend of teaching and research, have much to offer to those who wish to
learn more than simple skills: judgment, initiative, and fair competition for
research positions. Over the years, universities have acquired invaluable
resources in the form of laboratories and libraries with specially trained staff.
How can they evolve to take advantage of the many possibilities of the
Internet and broadband communication?
Many institutions of higher education are trying to integrate new
information and communications technologies into current curricula or to
develop new learning paradigms for learning. Because it is still so early in
the game they are eager to compare their efforts and results to the
achievements of others and are willing to learn from them.
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a multi
national federation of professional and technical organizations, founded in
1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, whose mission is to assist in the
development, exploitation, and application of Information Technology for
the benefit of all peoples. Given this scope of activity, IFIP seemed the
appropriate body to give an international dimension to such a forum.
At the heart of IFIP activities are the Technical Committees (TCs), each
with a particular focus. Education is the focus of Technical Committee 3
(TC3). Work within the focus of a Technical Committee is done in Working
Groups (WGs) of specialists who are individually appointed by their peers,
x Bernard Levrat
independent of nationality and of national governments. This conference was
specifically organized by WG 3.2 (Informatics and ICT at the Level of
Higher Education) and by WG 3.6 (Distance Learning). WG3.2 defines its
mission as providing from an international viewpoint a forward look on the
development and impact of informatics and resulting technologies in higher
education. WG3.6 aims to consider the essentials for preparing all of society
for living in the information age using distance learning systems, to
investigate the technology of distance learning, to be aware of new and
advanced methods, and to support the spread of distance learning in various
countries' educational institutions.
WG3.6 had held a very successful conference on a related subject in
Madrid, in November 1997: "The Virtual Campus: Trends for Higher
Education and Training". Its proceedings were published by Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Boston, January 1998. WG3.2 was happy to
recommend the University of California, Irvine, (UCI) as the site of the
conference since it had previously hosted a successful conference on
"University Education Uses of Visualization in Scientific Computing" in
July 1993, the proceedings of which were published by North Holland.
IFIP accordingly approved a conference proposal from UCI with the
following International Program Committee whose dedication and work
made the conference a success.
- Werner Beuschel, University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg,
Germany
- Peter Bryant, University of California, Irvine
- Gordon Davies, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- Michael D'Zmura, University of California, Irvine
- Stephen Franklin, University of California, Irvine
- Robert Garfias, University of California, Irvine
- Julia Gelfand, University of California, Irvine
- Christopher Grayce, University of California, Irvine
- Bernard Levrat, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Ellen Strenski, University of California, Irvine
- Tom van Weert, Utrecht University for Professional Education, The
Netherlands
- Jan Wibe, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway
Committee members from UCI handled the local organization.
Organizational support and local sponsorship for this conference came from
UCI's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, its Division of
Undergraduate Education, its School of Humanities, the UCI Libraries, and
the UCI Office of Academic Computing. In addition to handling all local
logistics, UCI's Office of Academic Computing staff also organized the
Foreword xi
annual TC3 meeting that enabled Peter Bollerslev, President of IFIP, to open
the conference.
In addition to IFIP and UCI, the conference was supported by Sun
Microsystems, VTLS Inc., the IEEE Computer Society, and Innovative
Interfaces, Inc. Their support was essential and greatly appreciated.
The success of such a conference comes essentially from the quality of
the papers presented and the discussions that follow. Participants were
stimulated by three excellent invited speakers giving very different
viewpoints: "Authoring a Multimedia Technical Book: Design and
Implementation Considerations" by Bruce Shriver, IEEE Computer Society
Fellow, former president, and representative to the IFIP General Assembly,
showed how excellent material can be produced by a dedicated individual.
Next, Alexander Singer, well-known director of Star Trek television series,
now at the University of Southern California, addressed the subject "How
the Media Both Reflect and Shape the Public Perception of the Nature and
Practice of Science" with many illuminating excerpts from his famous TV
series. Finally, Andries van Dam, hypertext and computer graphics pioneer
from Brown University, pondered the question "Building Innovative
Electronic Educational Environments: Why Is It Hard And What Will
Change?" His response advocated a step-by-step, collective, approach,
sharing materials, amazing examples of which he showed in the form of
beautifully designed graphics applets.
The conference attracted a mix of people from diverse cultures: academia
and industry, computer science and libraries, dedicated distance learning
institutions and solidly entrenched traditional universities. Thanks to the
hard work of Stephen Franklin and Ellen Strenski, co-chairs of the local
organizing committee, most of the material was available on the Web
beforehand. The discussions were lively, the opinions diverse, and, through
the editors' efforts, hopefully these proceedings will bring to the reader a
flavor of these very enriching three days under the beautiful California
sunshine, as well as some thought provoking papers.
Bernard Levrat, Co-Chair, Conference Program Committee