Web Based Courses - Reaching a Distributed Audience (ECMIMIM)

M. Heilio (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland) and H. Rootzén (Technical University of Denmark)

Are you planning to make a web based course or have you already done so? Virtual technologies and digital educational environments enable novel solutions to training and education, they help to facilitate distributed processes and provide remote access to educational resources.

Interactive cross-media environment allows easy access and portability, flexible updates and the benefits of media technology, hypertext properties, animations etc. An evolution of educational methods, materials and means of delivery is taking place. Many pathfinder projects are underway. Time is mature for launching international collaboration.

This minisymposium will give you ideas on how to build up net based courses and environments. We discuss the challenge of distributed web based solutions in organizing education in applied mathematics and statistics. New ways for activating the students using the computer will be presented and we will discus international and third world perspective on distance education. Titles of the talks

Statlab - a virtual environment for design of experiments.

MAS – a Web based master in applied statistics 

Open University and Distant Education in Applied Mathematics, a Third World Perspective.

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