Abstract
The design of teaching and learning materials in online learning environments represents an essential quality attribute and success factor
of E-learning offerings. Content itself and individual learning processes require a variety of facilities for content authoring and navigation,
such as a thematic, task-based, associative, sequential or hierarchical
organization of contents as well as the enrichment of contents with
domain-specific and didactic elements.
In this thesis, the enrichment of navigational structures in online
learning environments is investigated. In order to increase the visibility of domain structures in-use, related work is analyzed considering
the nature of domain structures and their encoding in learning ma-
terials, the enrichment of navigation means with domain structures
as well as concrete implementations. Beyond the implementation of
a tool for the interactive manipulation of navigation structures and
learning content is described. The implementation includes the design of a suitable representation as well as the user-interface design
and implementation for interactive manipulation. Based on a theory-
guided design and implementation, the approach and the tool are
explored within the field of teaching business process modeling and
the cross-sectoral transfer of design and evaluation methods. Besides
the exploration, the potential is illustrated. The exploration of the
approach contributes to the explication of domain knowledge and
provides results on the applicability and usefulness of the given approach for teachers and authors of educational content.
| Translated title of the contribution | Enriching navigation structures in online learning environments |
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| Original language | German (Austria) |
| Publication status | Published - May 2013 |
Fields of science
- 102015 Information systems
JKU Focus areas
- Social and Economic Sciences (in general)