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Web-Based Water-Related Education and Training

Author(s): K. Peter Holz; Frank Molkenthin

Linked Author(s): Frank Molkenthin

Keywords: Web-based teaching material; Web-based collaborative engineering; Open distance learning; Virtual university; Technical culture

Abstract: Water resource management in the natural environment is an important basis of modern human life, driven amongst other topics by the technical progress. The Internet and the World Wide Web are changing our society nowadays in a revolutionary way. This has to be reflected in water-related education and training. This contribution focuses on Web technology for water-related education and training and on related Web-based collaborative engineering. Web-based documents combine traditional text/graphic oriented documents and linked multi-media components into a new kind of teaching material. Multi-media presentation such as interactive time-depending 3D worlds increases the level of comprehensibility of natural processes. Interactive software components such as JavaApplets expand lecture notes into exercise tools. The hyper-link structure of Web-based documents enables individual reading and study. Web-based documents are platform independent and can be offered time and location independence in the World Wide Web. Document management systems enable a virtual repository/library of teaching material. All these features support self-study as well as Open Distance Learning offers. Information exchange and information sharing in networks over distance and time shift open a new dimension of collaboration by distributed information and documentation systems as well as Web-based project platforms. New working methods such as Web-based collaborative engineering have to be introduced in practice and as prerequisites in education and training. New organizational structures such as virtual classrooms and virtual universities will support education and training over distance and open a new dimension of continuing education for practitioners. These technological innovations require a change in the way of thinking and working as well as in the habits of involved humans. The benefit of Web technology can only be realized by the development of a corresponding Technical Culture-a challenge for education and training.

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Year: 2003

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