Title :
The evaluation of educational service integration in integrated virtual courses
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Applications, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Abstract :
The effectiveness of integrated virtual courses is determined by factors such as the navigability of the system. We argue that in a virtual course, which offers different educational services for different learning activities, the integration of services is a good indicator for the effectiveness of a virtual course infrastructure. We develop a set of metrics to measure the degree of integration of a virtual course. We combine structural metrics and the analysis of the student usage of the system in order to measure integration
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; educational courses; virtual reality; educational service integration evaluation; integrated virtual courses; metrics; structural metrics; virtual course; Computer applications; Education; Educational activities; Laboratories; Portals; Software systems; Spine; Student activities; Virtual environment; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0945-2
DOI :
10.1109/SAINTW.2001.998211
