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Foil 11 Design and Architecture of Curricula Material

From Web Based Education and Training -- Lets Go for It! Dynamics of the Networked Academy Mississippi State Univ. -- September 9-11 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 First we note that the web is evolving to the "object web" as "distributed object" and traditional web technologies merge. Whether Sun(Java), Microsoft(COM), W3C (Web Consortium) or OMG (Object Managent Group) win does not matter
  • At a high level they are all distributed objects accessible from the web
2 So the architecture is that of distributed objects which are designed to be as modular as possible
  • Natural size of basic "educational object" is about a screenfull
3 Initial design will be traditional -- include
  • Bunch of "foils" (electronic presentation)
  • Bunch of HTML pages (electronic book)
  • Bunch of multimedia dazzle (today's educational CDROM's)
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