TY - UNPB
T1 - UniFlex
T2 - A WWW-environment for project-based collaborative learning
AU - Borch, Ole
AU - Helbo, Jan
AU - Knudsen, Morten
AU - Rokkjær, Ole
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Increasing demands for remote on-line education are changing the way
teaching and learning is performed. New behavior in using pedagogy and
supporting technology is needed to drive the learning process. To facilitate the
use of services for selected activities to participants in on-line education, a
web site named UniFlex (University Flexible learning) has been developed and
brought into use. The site is a comprehensive set of bookmarks including course
taking, upload/download, and - of special significance - collaborative on-line
project work. UniFlex has been developed to meet the requirement for a simple
and cheap personalized interactive site, supporting problem oriented and project
organized study form, which has characterized Aalborg University for more than
25 years. UniFlex supports a virtual group room for collaborative work as a key
facility. UniFlex has downloadable templates, which includes newly, developed
pedagogical methods supporting teachers producing course materials. UniFlex is
used as the selected site to prevent inconsistency and loss of information. The
site is based on the most commonly used Internet architecture and tools and is
structured relatively simple to ease technical maintenance. Web interfaces for
all type of users are developed to ease information and document upload, user
administration and more. The product is used at Aalborg University open distance
education for "Master of Industrial Information technology" (MII) and "Master in
Mobile Information Communication" (MMIC), and other collaborative applications.
The majority of the users are very satisfied with the product since it is
simple, inexpensive, has a reasonable speed and easy to use and
maintain.
AB - Increasing demands for remote on-line education are changing the way
teaching and learning is performed. New behavior in using pedagogy and
supporting technology is needed to drive the learning process. To facilitate the
use of services for selected activities to participants in on-line education, a
web site named UniFlex (University Flexible learning) has been developed and
brought into use. The site is a comprehensive set of bookmarks including course
taking, upload/download, and - of special significance - collaborative on-line
project work. UniFlex has been developed to meet the requirement for a simple
and cheap personalized interactive site, supporting problem oriented and project
organized study form, which has characterized Aalborg University for more than
25 years. UniFlex supports a virtual group room for collaborative work as a key
facility. UniFlex has downloadable templates, which includes newly, developed
pedagogical methods supporting teachers producing course materials. UniFlex is
used as the selected site to prevent inconsistency and loss of information. The
site is based on the most commonly used Internet architecture and tools and is
structured relatively simple to ease technical maintenance. Web interfaces for
all type of users are developed to ease information and document upload, user
administration and more. The product is used at Aalborg University open distance
education for "Master of Industrial Information technology" (MII) and "Master in
Mobile Information Communication" (MMIC), and other collaborative applications.
The majority of the users are very satisfied with the product since it is
simple, inexpensive, has a reasonable speed and easy to use and
maintain.
M3 - Working paper
BT - UniFlex
ER -