An example of generating Internet-based course material
Ilan Fischer, Simon Wiest, Andreas Zell · 2000
With universities being at the same time research and educational institutions, one would expect that WWW, which started as an exchange medium for scientific documents, quickly finds its application in higher education. Although many different concepts for building Web-supported courses have been developed, none could establish itself as the dominating standard. We have developed a "lightweight" platform for Internet-supported education and implemented courses on neural networks and evolutinonary algorithms on it. The platform consists of a site-management software and corresponding content and configuration data. The content encompasses on-line textbooks, spiced with interactive components, and simulator. Keywords WWW; Education; Visualization; Neural networks; Evolutionary algorithms. I. INTRODUCTION Starting as a scientific document exchange medium, the World Wide Web has become today 's most rapidly growing, biggest and most popular service on the Internet, and established itse...