REENGINEERING LEARNING SCENARIOS WITH WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGIES
REENGINEERING LEARNING SCENARIOS WITH WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGIES

Summary/Abstract: Web-based technologies allow teachers to introduce new kinds of learning content and new tools, to diversify the educational options and increase the flexibility. This blending leads to a change in the learning process itself, which makes a major difference from the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. Apart from the traditional guidelines, one currently uses web-based tools for generating wiki pages, lessons and reports, for presenting application domain concepts, integrating acquired data and executing queries on various results shared by colleagues. We analyzed the practical work of engineering students and discovered that the learning process is reengineered if one adopts new technologies for managing educational materials and experiment results. Model driven and semanticbased tools are expected to introduce adaptation of teaching to individual requirements and styles. This paper presents the learning scenarios involved by two kinds of tools based on web technologies, dedicated to the management of laboratory guidelines and of practical work results. A part of the study was based on an integrated environment developed in-house, for offering computer support to educational activities based on measuring instruments, including various devices, sensor networks and complex equipment; one presents its architectural modules driven by object-oriented models, and scenarios associated to its use cases. Furthermore, we also analyzed the changes introduced by a new semantic wiki that presents concepts of nuclear hazard management, conceived not only for students’ education, but also for public awareness. The Business Process Modeling Language was used to represent the traditional and the reengineered learning scenarios and to compare them.

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