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Scholarship July 3, 2025

The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net

The Wabash Center

Author
Eisenstadt, Marc and Tom Vincent
Publisher
Kogan Page, London
ISBN
0749427264
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements and affiliations
List of colour plates
Knowledge Media takes off on the Web: introduction and overview of the book

Pt. I Learning media
ch. 1 Can you get my hard nose in focus? Universities, mass education and appropriate technology
ch. 2 The Web: enabler or disabler
ch. 3 Collaborative learning in networked simulation environments
ch. 4 Media integration through meta-learning environments
ch. 5 Developing Web-based student support systems: telling student stories on the Internet
ch. 6 Innovations in large-scale supported distance teaching: transformation for the Internet, not just translation

Pt. II Collaboration and presence
ch. 7 Promoting learner dialogues on the Web
ch. 8 New scenarios in scholarly publishing and debate
ch. 9 Exploring telepresence on the Internet: the KMi Stadium Webcast experience
ch. 10 KMi Planet: putting the knowledge back into media
ch. 11 Sharing programming knowledge over the Web: the Internet Software Visualization Laboratory

Pt. III Knowledge Systems on the Web
ch. 12 Accessing artificial intelligence applications over the World Wide Web
ch. 13 Knowledge modelling: an organic technology for the knowledge age
ch. 14 The World Wide Design Lab: an environment for distributed collaborative design
ch. 15 Psychological agents and the new Web media
ch. 16 The Virtual Participant: a tutor's assistant for electronic conferencing

References
Index
In the ever-advancing world of educational technology, the Open Universitys Knowledge Media Institute is state of the art, leading the pack in producing learning resources for the World Wide Web. This book, edited by the two founders of KMI, discusses the educational possibilities of the new technologies and brings together examples of cutting edge projects from the institute. Each of the fourteen contributions -- written by such experts as Sir John Daniel -- is linked with a site on the Web that allows readers to engage in some on-line experimentation of their own. This is a book that no forward-thinking teacher or trainer will want to be without. (From the Publisher)