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In this paper, we present the design and implementation of IDEAL, an Integrated Distributed Environment for Asynchronous Learning. The learning environment supports a Web-based distributed community for student-centered, self-paced, and highly interactive learning. IDEAL enables the students in the community to learn from each other and enhances their learning experience. Implemented using the prevalent Internet, Web, intelligent agent, and digital library technologies, IDEAL adopts an open architecture design and targets at large-scale, distributed operations. In the initial implementation, a number of prototypes using different Java-based software development environments have been developed.
Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grants DUE-9851485 and DUE-9980375 and by the Research Board of the University of Missouri System.
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Shang, Y., Shi, H. (2000). IDEAL: An Integrated Distributed Environment for Asynchronous Learning. In: Kropf, P.G., Babin, G., Plaice, J., Unger, H. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45111-0_21
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