IDEAL: An Integrated Distributed Environment for Asynchronous Learning

  • Authors:
  • Yi Shang;Hongchi Shi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • DCW '00 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of IDEAL, an Integrated Distributed Environment for Asynchronous Learning. The learning environment supports a Web-based distributed community for student-centered, self-paced, and highly interactive learning. IDEAL enables the students in the community to learn from each other and enhances their learning experience. Implemented using the prevalent Internet, Web, intelligent agent, and digital library technologies, IDEAL adopts an open architecture design and targets at large-scale, distributed operations. In the initial implementation, a number of prototypes using different Java-based software development environments have been developed.