Intelligent Online Knowledge Resources for Instructional Learning. Computer-Supported and Computer-Aided Design for Online Knowledge Resources

Abstract

The Institute of Technical Computer Science — Section Knowledge Based Systems — at Hanover University co-operated with the Project Area Work at ifu There are innumerable research projects in the fields of Technology, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, all of them being highly structured fields. It was the possibility to work in the Social Sciences, a field that Koschmann et al. (1993/1994: 231) call ‘ill-structured’, that made the co-operation particularly interesting. Thanks to the situation given at ifu, it was possible to develop resources and structures for project work in an interdisciplinary field, with representatives of seven different disciplines, namely sociology, socio-psychology, education, political science, economics, history, and ethno-psychoanalysis.²

An earlier version of this article was published in the Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 2001, PO Bos 3728, Norfolk, VA, 23514–3728, http://www.aace.org, http://www.pubs.aace.org, and is used in this publication by courtesy of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). The enclosed version was substantially revised for publication in Neusel and Poppenhusen (2002). Thanks to Sabine Prechter for updating the original text by integrating the changes made in the German language version.