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...

Web-based education, started about 6 years ago, is growing by leaps and bound and is expected to reach almost 5 million students by 2006. Many players have already been eliminated but many more are emerging. Many institutions are at a cross road and in many cases their survival depends on how successfully they handle WBE. In this regard they can learn from early adopters of WBE and learn from t...

In this paper we discuss the educational and research benefits of applying an innovative technology Topic Maps for organizing and retrieving online information in the context of Web-based courseware. Topic maps offer a standardsbased approach to encoding expert’s domain and instructional knowledge, i.e. to building educational ontologies and courseware components. This allows further reuse, sha...

Web-based user-adaptive learning environments suggest a semantic knowledge representation that can be reused in different contexts. Moreover, if these educational systems employ external service systems for support or for exploratory activities, the semantic representation is a basis for the interoperability of the service systems and for machine-understandable data. ActiveMath is such a learni...

Based on the newest information and communication technology all the needs of modern educational systems can be met for the first time in one tool and one medium: the computer and the internet. Computer based solutions provide the technological support necessary for the whole teaching and learning process. The greatest advantage is the possible combination of all usable instruments, their flexi...

The concept of a "virtual" environment has emerged from advances in computer networking, image processing, modeling, simulation and multimedia data representation. During the past few years the concept has been intensively employed in Virtual Design Studios (VDSs) for teaching students both design and Internet technology issues. This paper presents the Web-based VDS as an environment for comput...

The technological evolution, especially the World Wide Web provides new options to disseminate educational material. The usual collection of separate computer based courses is replaced by a comprehensive information space holding interrelated lecture material as well as other study related information. This paper discusses our experience in setting up such an information space and using it for ...