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Crystallographic CourseWare

Crystallographic CourseWare is a set of computer animations and interactive exercises designed to assist undergraduate and introductory graduate students in their learning of crystallography. Topics discussed include crystal growth, planeand space-group symmetry elements, unit cells and asymmetric units, reciprocal space, precession photographs, and an introduction to reading the International ...

Reusing Hypermedial Courseware

The problem of software reuse has often been dealt with exclusively in a code production context. However, the concept of software includes many other types of artefacts. In this work the reuse is discussed from the viewpoint of those who construct and use hypermedia as teaching aids, that is, as courseware. The case of the reuse of courseware highlights how the discussion regarding only techno...

Pedagogical Validation of Courseware

Creating courses by combining Learning Objects (LOs) sourced from third parties, known as courseware, is becoming more popular of late. Although courseware has advantages over traditional courses, it can be difficult to ensure a consistent instructional approach and strategy that satisfies the original courseware construction concerns, due to the abstracted view of LOs the course creator now ha...

Courseware Authoring Tasks Ontology

Authoring of concept-based Web courseware is more complicated than the ‘standard’ courseware authoring and thus needs more adaptive and intelligent support. In order to provide such support the authoring system itself needs to have understanding about the process of courseware authoring, to be able to decompose it in steps and procedures and reason over it; to provide hints and recommendations ...