T E L E L E A R N I N G
Paths to the Virtual University
From the crammer school to knowledge management
Information and Communication Technology and Learning
This website is all about telelearning, the process of making connections among persons and resources through communication technologies for learning related purposes. I, Rogier van der Hee from the Delft University of Technology, and Marco Schmucker from the University of Hohenheim, have written an essay about a subtopic of telelearning. This was done for a teleseminar, held from May till July 1998. Our topic was: "Potentials, realised solutions and trends of telelearning in vocational training". We wish you a lot of fun with reading!
Rogier van der Hee & Marco Schmucker
July 3rd 1998
A B O U T
The essay
From May till July this year, a Teleseminar about Telelearning is held at the University of Hohenheim and at the Delft Univesity of Technology. The purpose is that the students learn something about the issues related to Telelearning. Furthermore, a German student and a Dutch student have to write -together- an essay about a certain topic. Our topic is: "Potentials, realised solutions and trends of telelearning in vocational training". Facilities to accomodate the writing of this essay are e-mail, ICQ, Proshare (videoconferencing tool), a mailinglist, a newsgroup and more. More information about the Teleseminar and the organisation around it, can be found here.
L I N K S
Relevant to the essay
Here you can find the links that we have come up so far. A short description of the site is added for convenience:
- 1. Tom's CSCW & Groupware Index
- A big list of topic-sorted links to resources on CSCW and Groupware on the web.
- 2. Groupware - The changing environment
- An online book that gives a full introduction to groupware. A lot to read, but good to get into the subject.
- 3. National Center for Research in Vocational Education
- Homepage of the NCRV. There are loads of on-line full text reports on vocational training:
- 4. TuLIPS project
- TuLIPS: Tutor supported Learning on Interactive Peripheral Systems.
- 5. Virtual Learning Environments
- Application: Virtual-U is a server based software system that enables customized design, delivery, and enhancement of education and training courses delivered over the World Wide Web (WWW).
- 6. Lotus Learningspace
- Application: Notes-based environment for collaborative, team-based learning, teaching, and student support.
- 7. Telelearning advances
- Recent advances in Telelearning. Gives an nice overview of the ongoing projects in Canada. Interesting is the "innovations" section, which describes innovative (else they wouldn't be in this section!) distance education support tools.
- 8. Teleform - a Telelearning Research Network project
- THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING. A project about telelearning for the workplace, READ IT!!!!
- 11. An Overview of Computer-assisted Instruction and a Qualitative Evaluation of a Program
- Just what it says in the title..
- 12. Building Asynchronous & Synchronous Teaching-Learning Environments: Exploring A Course/Classroom Management System Solution
- A paper on the software solutions for synchronous and a synchronous teaching and learning. Includes screenshots. Gives a nice overview.
- 13. IBM Global Campus: An in-depth look...
- Although the Global campus project aims at re-engineering learning, teaching for distributed learning for students, it is usefull for the potentials in vocational training.
- 14. Multimedia Moglich Machen - Deutschlands Weg in die Wissengesellschaft
- A brochure (in German) from a German ministry, which has some interesting information on page 18. There are remarks about multimedia and learning.
- 15. Didaktische Konzepte für das computerunterstützte Lehren und Lernen
- German homepage. Interesting articles:
- 14. Web of asynchronous Learning Networks
- Lots of interesting articles concerning distance learning:
- 15. Distance Learning Calculator
- Just a funny one: Calculate the savings made by doing courses at home.
