The evaluation of educational service integration in integrated virtual courses
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pahl, C.
- Source
- Proceedings 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (Cat. No.01PR0945) Applications and internet workshops Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 Symposium on. :61-66 2001
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Education
Portals
Computer applications
Spine
Laboratories
Educational activities
Virtual environment
Student activities
Web and internet services
Software systems
- Language
The effectiveness of integrated virtual courses is determined by factors such as the navigability of the system. We argue that in a virtual course, which offers different educational services for different learning activities, the integration of services is a good indicator for the effectiveness of a virtual course infrastructure. We develop a set of metrics to measure the degree of integration of a virtual course. We combine structural metrics and the analysis of the student usage of the system in order to measure integration.