Integrating learning objects into an open learning environment: evaluation of learning processes in an informatics learning lab

Abstract

The Didactics of Informatics research group at the University of Paderborn is involved in efforts to design implement and evaluate a web-based learning laboratory for informatics (ILL). The ILL mainly serves the purpose of an open interactive learning environment for software engineering. The poster presentation shows the main components of an ILL and the types of media that are used. A didactical concept, learning strategies and the efforts to create self-organizing learning communities in the ILL are also topics of the poster. Finally, an evaluation concept will be presented including some basic results of empirical research which was done during a seminar held in the summer term 2003.