The use of the World Wide Web in education is evident. A lot of web-based courseware (webware) pr... more The use of the World Wide Web in education is evident. A lot of web-based courseware (webware) products are being developed. These products are special-purpose software applications that run over the internet. Although the established software engineering disciplines apply to this kind of products as well, the specific domain characteristics and requirements may narrow the design choices of developers and let them focus to more important aspects of the software, such as the learning effectiveness and the pedagogical efficiency. Today there is lack of design methods and guidelines targeted to webware. Such methods could help the developers increase the learning effectiveness of the end product, the efficiency of the design and implementation processes. The object oriented design methods have been proven to be very useful for general-purpose hypermedia applications. However, in the special case of webware, the generic guidelines and freedom of the object-oriented paradigm can put deve...
ABSTRACT Public health information systems could play a really important role in the step-up of h... more ABSTRACT Public health information systems could play a really important role in the step-up of human life quality. Such systems require a user friendly environment that enables public organizations, health centers and even citizens to acquire knowledge in an organized way. That means that content can be accessed, evaluated, organized and reused with ease by anyone concerned. Social Software (i.e Wikis, Weblogs) as well as Semantic Web technologies could be of major importance in such public health information systems. Social Software technologies support the collaboration of people anytime, anywhere and enable users to choose their own processes. Semantic Web technologies on the other hand enable information structure for easy retrieval, reuse and exchange between different systems and tools. Semantic wikis is a really powerful tool that combines Social Software and Semantic Web technologies. In this article a prototype Epidemiological Semantic Wiki is described. Moreover the functionality of this wiki is illustrated though a use case.
The use of the World Wide Web in education is evident. A lot of web-based courseware (webware) pr... more The use of the World Wide Web in education is evident. A lot of web-based courseware (webware) products are being developed. These products are special-purpose software applications that run over the internet. Although the established software engineering disciplines apply to this kind of products as well, the specific domain characteristics and requirements may narrow the design choices of developers and let them focus to more important aspects of the software, such as the learning effectiveness and the pedagogical efficiency. Today there is lack of design methods and guidelines targeted to webware. Such methods could help the developers increase the learning effectiveness of the end product, the efficiency of the design and implementation processes. The object oriented design methods have been proven to be very useful for general-purpose hypermedia applications. However, in the special case of webware, the generic guidelines and freedom of the object-oriented paradigm can put deve...
ABSTRACT Public health information systems could play a really important role in the step-up of h... more ABSTRACT Public health information systems could play a really important role in the step-up of human life quality. Such systems require a user friendly environment that enables public organizations, health centers and even citizens to acquire knowledge in an organized way. That means that content can be accessed, evaluated, organized and reused with ease by anyone concerned. Social Software (i.e Wikis, Weblogs) as well as Semantic Web technologies could be of major importance in such public health information systems. Social Software technologies support the collaboration of people anytime, anywhere and enable users to choose their own processes. Semantic Web technologies on the other hand enable information structure for easy retrieval, reuse and exchange between different systems and tools. Semantic wikis is a really powerful tool that combines Social Software and Semantic Web technologies. In this article a prototype Epidemiological Semantic Wiki is described. Moreover the functionality of this wiki is illustrated though a use case.
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