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^eduWEAVER - A Coursware Design Tool

Eduweaver is a management tool for lectures

Project Outline

^eduWEAVER ist a tool for managing your learning objects and your lectures.
^eduWEAVER gives the possibility to publish your learning objects (as for e-learning as for common teaching), providing them to other teachers and accessing a steadily growing pool of learning objects in the same time.
^eduWEAVER provides a hierachical structured modelling interface to design courses. You have the possibility to create a new course from scratch or to access existing courses of other lecturers to reuse their contents or just parts of them.
^eduWEAVER enables various possibilities of course representation. You can use a simple file download to reuse the selected learning objects or you can export them to html format. Here you get a html pages containing the structure of your course including the inbound learning objects to provide them to your students. If your institute already uses a learning platform, you can choose between exchange formats to integrate your eduWeaver contents into your institutes' learning platform. The exchange formats follow the rules of international accepted export standards for learning platforms. They are SCORM (e.g. for Moodle, WebCT Vista) and IMS Content Package (e.g. WebCT Campus Edition 4.1). So when using eduWeaver you are absolutly independent from another platform and you can reuse your whole courses including their structure and contents.

Here you can download the eduWeaver guideline. [download]

Modelling Sandbox

A playground for greenhorn modellers.

At this point you have the possibility to check the latest release of the eduWeaver modelling method. The modelgroup "guest" is dedicated for testing purposes.

Click the following link to access the sandbox applet.

Modelling Sandbox

The sandbox login is username "guest" with password "guest".

Attention:

The "Java Runtime Environment" (JRE) for running Java Applets in your Webbrowser is required to start modelling.

Tutorials

To get a better view on the functionality of eduWeaver, we have created a lot of tutorials. The videos show how to use the eduWeaver tool. It consists of three parts. Every part is devided into one or more flash video tutorials.

	Layer 1 - Course Map Eduweaver modelling can be started on two ways. bottom-up, from learning object to the course map or top-down, from the course over the lessons down to the learning objects Our example shows the top-down method. We start with the course map (layer 1). This video should explain how a course map can be created.
	Layer 2 - Course After creation of the course map we need modules which can be added to the relevant courses. This is done in the layer 2. Access the video to see how it works.
	Layer 3 - Module Every module contains a different number of lessons which take usually between 45 and 90 minutes. The next video shows how a layer 3 model is created.
	Layer 4 - Lesson Every lesson has content which is described and modelled in layer 4. Here we define how a lesson looks like and which parts and tasks it consists.
	Learning Object Pool Learning objects which are used in a lesson are created and linked in the learning object pool (LOP). The next video shows how a learning object could look like.
	Referencing After the successful creation of the four layers including their elements, we need to connect the objects of the modelling tool together. This referencing is described in the next video.