On Two Aspects of Improving Web-Based Training

In this paper we discuss two novel ideas to improve teaching and information transfer between persons in general. The rst aspect is centered around proposing to use the \Tamagotchi craze" for teaching purposes, the second deals with new ways of unobtrusively collecting data on the subjective satisfaction of persons with information and teaching material o ered on the Web.

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