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The design, development and evaluation of hypermedia courseware for the World Wide Web

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The World Wide Web provides hypertext and multimedia based information across the Internet. Many applications have been developed on http servers.

One important and novel use of the servers has been the provision of courseware facilities. This includes on-line lecture notes, exercises and their solutions as well as interactive packages suited primarily for teaching and demonstration packages. A variety of disciplines have benefitted notably C programming, X Windows, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence and Parallel Computing.

This paper will address the issues of (i) implementing a variety of computer science courses and (ii) using the packages in a class environment.

It also considers how best to provide information in such a hypertext based system and how interactive image processing packages can be developed. A suite of multimedia based tools have been developed to facilitate such systems and these will be described in the paper. In particular we have developed a number of methods for running applications live over the WWW.

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Marshall, A.D., Hurley, S. The design, development and evaluation of hypermedia courseware for the World Wide Web. Multimed Tools Appl 3, 5–31 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403082

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