Computer Assisted Learning

Proceedings of a conference covering a wide range of theoretical and practical topics in computer assisted learning. An up-to-date and international review of important accomplishments for all those active or interested in CAL.

Inhalt
Experiences using algorithm animations for teaching and research.- Computer science for teachers: A quest for classics, and how to present them.- Educational software development Why, what, and how.- Flexible access to text-based resources.- A multi-purpose database of learning materials (M-DBLM).- Interactive support for planning visual programs in the problem solving monitor ABSYNT giving feedback to user hypotheses on the language level.- Human-computer graphical dialogue.- Intelligent CAI course in the first-order logic.- An'alternate realities' microworld for horizontal motion.- Simulating the behaviour of three dimensional reticular structures with both curved and straight elements.- An abstract machine simulator.- A model of the acquisition of rule knowledge with visual helps: The operational knowledge for a functional, visual programming language.- Knowledge representation with and-or-graphs: Comparing the approach of doignon & falmagne with the absynt-diagnostics.- Computer assisted concept learning.- User modelling in help systems.- Proactive modelling and the development of coaching strategies in geometry.- A classification and synthesis of student modelling techniques in intelligent computer-assisted instruction.- Maccritic: A program for practice in textual analysis and criticism.- Linking real-time measurement with CAL.- A tiny tool for matrix inversion in a COSTOC environment.- Hyperinformation in instructional tool environments.- Towards a typology of educational uses of hypermedia.- The direct use of already existing user manuals for computer aided instruction and information retrieval with the aid of hypermedia.- The meda project: developing evaluation competence in the training software domain.- Teaching software for structural engineering.-Computer-Based Flight Training Evaluation.- Interactive learning programs for unix-machines.- Dimensions of authoring aids intelligence.- Implementing computer-aided instruction in distance education: An infrastructure.- Wombat: An intelligent educational system to encourage externalisation and reflection on decision processes.- Wordtutor: An intelligent tutoring system for teaching word processing.- Designing an intelligent prolog tutor.- MILES/SMP, MILES/SIB, and MILES/tapis Field specific applications of a common interdisciplinary multimedia database information system for teaching and learning.- Collaborative computer-based learning in China.- The description of a process for identifying musical performance behavior in instrumentalists using computer-based sound spectrum analysis, with implications for an interactive acoustic musical system.