Computer Science Exercises in a Virtual University

Abstract--In distance teaching, direct feedback to the students is difficult to give, but crucial for their learning success. The system Asterix was developed in order to support this direct feedback. It contains different interactive tasks from the area of the formal foundations of computer science. Asterix is available over an internet interface. The implementation of the interactive presentation and correction of the tasks is generated automatically from high-level XML specifications. In this work we give a detailed overview of the system architecture and the supported task types, both, from the students' and the teacher's point of view and we show how Asterix is used in the context of distance teaching at the FernUniversit

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CSREAEEE
• Authors: Manfred Widera, Barbara Messing, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Malte Isberner, Christoph Beierle
• Keywords: Asterix, CSREAEEE 2006, CSREAEEE 2007, Direct Feedback, Distance Teaching