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MEDIT: Structuring Documents for Web based Teaching (1998)
| Venue: | in Proceedings of CIDE'98 |
| Citations: | 5 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Khaled98medit:structuring,
author = {O. Abou Khaled and M.C. Pettenati and Y.A. Rekik and C. Vanoirbeek},
title = {MEDIT: Structuring Documents for Web based Teaching},
booktitle = {in Proceedings of CIDE'98},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
This paper discusses the use of Web technology to design and develop a distributed interactive teaching environment over the Internet. It emphasizes the advantages of a structural representation of pedagogical documents that exploit information on the network in an educational framework. The structured documents paradigm, based on the definition of document classes that distinguish between logical and physical aspects, clearly demonstrate the benefits of the approach in the field of document production. The attribute grammar formalism that we implemented in SGML (from which HTML and XML are derived) provides a powerful mechanism for manipulating rich semantically tagged information. The paper focuses on the modeling of pedagogical documents to represent, manipulate and enhance communication capabilities in an integrated teaching environment. Section 2. discusses the difficulties of designing and sharing collections of documents in a Web based environment and emphasizes the benefits of a structured document approach to meet the emerging requirements. Section 3. addresses the problem of organizing such collections in a teaching framework. It focuses on the analysis of the above requirements and the functionalities that may be offered to teachers and students when using a collective information and communication system. It also illustrates the architecture of our prototype and its application in the class of Fluid Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Section 4 concludes the paper highlighting the advantages and limits of our approach, as well as future work plans. 2. Collection of documents in WWW applications
Keyphrases
structuring document pedagogical document enhance communication capability teaching framework communication system future work plan structured document paradigm document class structured document approach integrated teaching environment attribute grammar formalism fluid mechanic collective information www application educational framework web technology structural representation physical aspect document production powerful mechanism distributed interactive teaching environment swiss federal institute
