Course Modeling for Student Profile Based Flexible Higher Education on the Internet

: Higher education courses are increasingly created as student organized collections of interrelated modules. At the same time, frequent change of subject matter and knowledge in its background must be handled. Above and other factors created and recognized a need for efficient computer based course management. Conventional computer aided teaching methods are not suitable to organize, manage, and communicate the comprehensive course information any more. The authors considered an analogy with well- organized computer descriptions of interrelated objects in the form of comprehensive integrated models in product engineering. Modeling and management of information serve engineering activities during lifecycle of product. Relevant advanced characteristics of integrated product descriptions are process orientation, definition of application oriented building elements called as features, and assistance of decisions by knowledge representations. The authors considered higher education course ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JUCS
• Authors: László Horváth, Imre J. Rudas
• Keywords: Comprehensive Course Information, Comprehensive Integrated Models, Interrelated Modules, JUCS 2006