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CATWEB is a Course Authoring Tool for web-based educational environments. It provides a “one-piece” system to create and follow courses on the WWW. Its intended audience is teachers and instructors who are unfamiliar with computers and internet technologies. The many existing HTML editors and converters do not provide a suitable methodology for giving a pedagogical structure to developed documents. CATWEB provides this methodology by automatically structuring the pedagogical contents into learning blocks.
CATWEB instructors need only to know how to use a WWW browser; administrative and maintenance tasks are done by the system itself. Furthermore, because CATWEB is based on standard internet services like FTP and HTTP, there is no need to set up additional software at the server or client side.
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Anido, L., Llamas, M., Fernández, M., Burguillo, J. (2000). CATWEB: A Tool for Developing Courses for the Web and from the Web. In: Franklin, S.D., Strenski, E. (eds) Building University Electronic Educational Environments. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 38. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35502-3_12
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