Themes in Education, 1:2, 145-161, 2000. Leader Books. Printed in Greece. LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ON THE WEB: The Pedagogical Role of the Educational Material
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As society changes rapidly education has become a life long activity, demanding for more open access to instruction. Technological developments, such as hypermedia and global access to the Internet, and especially the World Wide Web, can be used as useful tools in the implementation of alternate, open modes of instruction. In this work, distance learning through the Web is investigated. The ways in which Web functionality may serve the educational purposes of a virtual classroom are examined. The main stakeholders of a Web-based course are identified and their roles in a virtual classroom setting are described. As the impact of the educational material in the effectiveness of the learning environment is of major importance, alternative models of learning and assessing are considered. As a case study, a Web-based course on computer architecture, developed at the Department of Informatics, University of Athens, is presented. The difficulties that the learners encounter in this open environment are identified and possible solutions are proposed.
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