Supporting Collaborative Web-Based Education via Annotations

The spread of the internet and the evolution of the Web significantly change the way how we learn. Technology brings enhancements for learning almost on a daily basis. In this paper we discuss the role and importance of content annotations in a domain of web-based learning. We focus on collaboration support, continuous improvements of the content quality and increase of students’ motivation. We present two basic types of activity flows within an adaptive web-based educational system and aim at annotations in both conceptual as well as practical point of view. We present results of several long-term experiments conducted in real courses of programming learning to observe the impact of annotations on educational process.