SCHOLION — SCaleable TecHnOLogIes fOr TelelearniNg
Barbara Froschauer, Chris Stary, Michael Ellmer, Thomas Pilsl, Wolfgang Ortner, Alexandra Totter · 2000
SCHOLION is a novel type of educational environment.It has been designed and developed to overcome current limitations of distributed hypermedia environments for continuous user-centered teaching and active learning support.It provides individual facilities for knowledge producers and consumers, as well as a common information space for focused interaction.The fundamental idea in design has been the emphasis of individual and global link management to implement both, the individual and global context-sansitive communication among knowledge providers and consumers.In addition, the structuring of knowledge to be transferred from producers to active consumers has been strongly coupled with the idea of individual navigation and annotation of pieces of knowledge. RELATED WORKTraditional teaching and learning materials are available to knowledge consumers either online or off-line, such as on CD-ROM.Various digital library projects, such as [3] [4] ,• . . . . . .