Instructional uses of the WWW: An evaluation tool

  • Authors:

  • Carlos E. Palau;Juan C. Guerri;Manuel Esteve

  • Affiliations:

  • Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Camino de Vera S/N, Valencia 46022, Spain E-mail: {cpalau,jcguerri,mesteve}@dcom.upv.es;Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Camino de Vera S/N, Valencia 46022, Spain E-mail: {cpalau,jcguerri,mesteve}@dcom.upv.es;Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Camino de Vera S/N, Valencia 46022, Spain E-mail: {cpalau,jcguerri,mesteve}@dcom.upv.es

  • Venue:
  • World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The development of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the subsequent introduction of different browsers, with their extensions, has changed the Internet from a text-only communications tool to a powerful multimedia platform whose potential applications are increasing day by day. Research efforts in the computer aided education field are represented by a broad spectrum of applications, from the virtual classroom to remote courses. In these environments, visualising the progress of students in a certain course is an important part of the learning process. At the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia we are experimenting with WWW based software tools and networks for computer aided learning. This research process has resulted in the development of a teacher’s authoring tool and an evaluation application; both developed using Java and based on Internet browsers. With this evaluation tool, teachers can easily create questions of different types – which are stored on a database. These questions can later be used to compose different exams or exercises for different students depending on the course and the objective of the examinations. The advantages include an improvement in the fulfillment of the teacher’s duties; an increase in the responsiveness of the exam results to the level of student understanding; and the potential for using the application in distance learning and training.