Scholion - Scaleable technologies for telelearning

Abstract

SCHOLION is a novel type of educational environment. It has been designed and developed to overcome current limitations of distributed hypermedia environments for continuous user-centered teaching and active learning support. It provides individual facilities for knowledge producers and consumers, as well as a common information space for focused interaction. The fundamental idea in design has been the emphasis of individual and global link management to implement both, the individual and global context-sensitive communication among knowledge providers and consumers. In addition, the structuring of knowledge to be transferred from producers to active consumers has been strongly coupled with the idea of individual navigation and annotation of pieces of knowledge. © 2000 ACM.