Creating Web-based Scenarios to Support Distance Learners

This paper describes an approach to gradually injecting networked technologies into the practice of distance education on a large scale. A framework for building learning scenarios is proposed, and an authoring tool is presented. A web-based environment is generated from documents described at a high level and a domain model. These documents explicitly describe learning trajectories and embed references to domain objects, thereby separating content from structure. This enables different learning strategies to be carried out over the same domain content. A case study for a Computer Science course illustrates the use of the system.