Building an Electronic Learning Community: From Design to
Implementation
Building an Electronic Learning Community: From Design to
Implementation
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1998-11-03
Authors
Rose, Anne
Ding, Wei
Marchionini, Gary
Beale, Josephus Jr.
Nolet, Victor
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Abstract
The University of Maryland at College Park in cooperation with Baltimore City
Public Schools and several partners is working to build an electronic learning
community that provides teachers with multimedia resources that are linked to
outcome-oriented curriculum guidelines. The initial resource library contains
over 1000 videos, texts, images, web sites, and instructional modules. Using
the current system, teachers can explore and search the resource library,
create and present instructional modules in their classrooms, and
communicate with other teachers in the community. This paper discusses the
iterative design process and the results of informal usability testing.
Lessons learned are also presented for developers.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-97-67 and as CLIS-TR-97-12)