C1 - 1 Courseware Tools Review

     Sonja Prišćan, Jasna Tingle , CARNet, Zagreb



 
Abstract
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This paper primary addresses teachers and professors that wish to implement WWW technology in their educational activities, in near future. For that purpose, there are several courseware tools available on the market, that allow simple use of Internet technologies even to ones with no technical background. Apart from a review of advantages and disadvantages of courseware tools, different elements are presented, that are should to be used by teachers, students and system administrators, as well as various smaller programs integrated in any courseware tool. In order to show how it looks in practice; we chose four different products. You will learn how they were developed, their availability and conditions under which they can be used and purcaced. And we will try to illustrate the way they work, using few pictures. Since these tools are used in learning process, it is necessary to say a word about pedagogical aspects of that new approach to studying and learning. That area is still being explored, since it has been implemented around the world only for five years, and in our country it is still at the very beginning. Teachers can help in that process by making comparative statistics on learning success with classical and new methods, and by making surveys among students.