aim: the aim of this study is to identify a framework of needed expertise for publishing academic electronic textbooks according to the characteristics of this kind of books. therefore the final result focuses on needed experts through the consensus method. method: delphi technique using the researcher made questionnaire was done in four rounds. the research population was composed of forty exp...

Creating an interactive drama requires authors to produce large quantities of story content. A programmer or knowledge expert typically creates this content because they have experience with the story environment. By using an authoring tool someone with less experience with the story environment can organize and create story content. The Scribe Authoring Tool is an authoring tool that will be u...

Over the last several decades, the media landscape has evolved into a complex and dynamic conglomeration of both traditional and interactive media that seek to serve the needs of today’s fast-paced lifestyles. While traditional media are struggling under the weight of increased segmentation, the interactive environment has shown the capacity to capitalize on this fragmented market by offering m...

The Proceedings of a one-day Workshop are described, in which publishers, publishing service providers, librarians, editors and authors met under the auspices of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) to survey new developments in interactive scholarly publishing, and to begin to identify the necessary infrastructure for including such interactive content wit...

1 E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract Sophisticated Web-based courseware typically includes highly interactive elements like interactive illustrations or a virtual laboratory together with cooperative tools. The intention is to support active engagement with the teaching content and to educe intuitive understanding by experimentation. However, developing a greater pool of c...

This contribution presents interdisciplinary approaches to develop, interlink, and modify Web-based learning content with special regard to highly interactive content. We describe how we base development of virtual experiments on a toolkit of reusable software components. For proper embedding into courseware we further provide a scripting interface. Authors may create and modify scripts online ...