We have developed a Web based multimedia educational system, which has been designed to provide support for both synchronous and asynchronous distance learning activities. On the one hand, the system provides students with asynchronous educational ...

We have developed a support system for collaborative environmental education by using distributed virtual environment accessible from real and virtual worlds. With this system, learners in the real world and experts in a virtual world can communicate ...

Today practitioners in education actively publish their instructional materials as HTML documents, using a variety of media. Yet, in most cases, third parties can only passively read the documents displayed in their browsers. This partly accounts for ...

Miace as a human cognitive architecture is a computational model that explains how a student acquires, encodes and uses domain knowledge. Because Miace takes into account the cognitive psychological laws and the environment in which the student works, ...

Tutoring strategies have evolved from direct learning to cooperative learning involving various agents, which are either computer simulated or real human beings. During these learning sessions conflicts then arise since the student must interact with ...

Results obtained from our past research programs were used to provide managers with models and tools that concern the process of organizational knowledge management. The models and tools are based on actual data. They aim at allowing the alignment of ...

Many new Internet technologies are available to Web programmers. Using these technologies it is now easy to develop dynamic Web based applications that use databases. We describe some of these new technologies and we briefly present two examples showing ...

This paper discusses ethical issues concerning Internet development, presentation and research. A brief overview of the major ethical issues related to computing is followed by a discussion of ethical issues specific to the use of the Internet. We will ...

In the past, dictionaries, encyclopedia and other reference books were indispensable tools for people doing translation. And it has been very common for students in translation classes to be handed a long list of text books, all sorts of dictionaries, ...

The need for desks on which to put desktop computers and for laps on which to use laptop computers seems an unnecessary constraint for the virtual class. The concept of flexibility in learning is central to the virtual class and that is going to require ...

This paper seeks to assess the educational advantages and disadvantages of the use of interactive, live teacher distance learning technologies in higher education. It arises from the authors' experience of using audio conferencing to teach an ...

The computer science discipline is well poised to provide leading examples of harnessing communications and computer technologies in order to encourage collaborative practices both within and between institutions. Students, academics, and institutions ...

In educational environments that stress collaboration, the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools can be a source of support as well as a challenge. This paper begins by considering general educational and economic goals and how CMC can be ...

Visualization has long been an important pedagogical tool in CS education. The widespread use of the Web and the introduction of Java, with its ability to present interactive animated applets and other types of animation, all provide opportunities to ...