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=reftype=
14
=number=
97-22
=url=
ftp://ftp.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/techreports/1997/97-22.ps.gz
=year=
1997
=author=
Schreiner; Wolfgang
=title=
A Distributed Education Environment Based on Mathematica
=howpublished=
IDIMT'97 -- 5th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks, Zadov,
Czech Republic, October 15-17, 1997, Austrian Computer Society,
Oldenbourg Verlag.
=month=
07
=keywords=
virtual classrooms, telelearning, teleteaching
=abstract=
This paper presents the concept of an environment for distributed
mathematical education based on the computer algebra system
\emph{Mathematica}$^{\copyright}$. Mathematica is a ``system for doing
mathematics by computer'' which combines a computational engine with
powerful presentation and visualization facilities based on the
concept of \emph{notebooks} (multimedia hypertext documents). The
system has gained large popularity in various scientific and technical
fields and is also heavily used in education. We have designed a
Mathematica-based distributed environment that supports classroom
scenarios such as the lecturer presenting a notebook to an audience or
the students exercising independently on personal notebook copies.
This design demonstrates various aspects of the adaption of commercial
software to distributed applications, in particular compromises that
arise from the limitations of external control facilities. A prototype
of this environment is being implemented in the frame of a diploma
thesis.
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