The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net

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ISBN: 9780749431785 | 0749431784
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Copyright: 3/1/2000

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Featuring contributions from staff and associates of the Knowledge Media Institute at the UK Open University, this text provides a glimpse into the wide variety of projects undertaken in the development and assessment of distance learning technologies.

Acknowledgements and affiliations

List of colour plates

vii

Introduction to the 2000 printing

viii

Knowledge Media takes off on the Web: introduction and overview of the book

(18)

Mark Eisenstadt

Tom Vincent

Part I Learning media

(98)

Can you get my hard nose in focus? Universities, mass education and appropriate technology

(10)

Sir John Daniel

The Web: enabler or disabler

(16)

Tom Vincent

Peter Whalley

Collaborative learning in networked simulation environments

(16)

Peter Whalley

Media integration through meta-learning environments

(16)

Tamara Sumner

Josie Taylor

Developing Web-based student support systems: telling student stories on the Internet

(18)

Peter Scott

Marion Phillips

Innovations in large-scale supported distance teaching: transformation for the Internet, not just translation

(20)

Marian Petre

Linda Carswell

Blaine Price

Pete Thomas

Part II Collaboration and presence

117

(82)

Promoting learner dialogues on the Web

119

(16)

Matthew Stratfold

New scenarios in scholarly publishing and debate

135

(18)

Simon Buckingham Shum

Tamara Sumner

Exploring telepresence on the Internet: the KMi Stadium Webcast experience

153

(20)

Peter Scott

Marc Eisenstadt

KMi Planet: putting the knowledge back into media

173

(12)

John Domingue

Peter Scott

Sharing programming knowledge over the Web: the Internet Software Visualization Laboratory

185

(14)

John Domingue

Paul Mulholland

Part III Knowledge Systems on the Web

199

(68)

Accessing artificial intelligence applications over the World Wide Web

201

(10)

Alberto Riva

Marco Ramoni

Knowledge modelling: an organic technology for the knowledge age

211

(14)

Arthur Stutt

Enrico Motta

The World Wide Design Lab: an environment for distributed collaborative design

225

(14)

Zdenek Zdrahal

John Domingue

Psychological agents and the new Web media

239

(10)

Stuart Watt

The Virtual Participant: a tutor's assistant for electronic conferencing

249

(18)

Simon Masterton

References

267

(20)

Index

287

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The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net

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