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Abstract
Educational system is traditionally defined as a community group
which includes teachers, as well as students, and their joint work
in the process of learning and teaching. Teachers, who are teaching
in synchronized time intervals, control the learning process in
such systems. However, such approach is nowadays exposed to important
changes, which are also a result of the great impact and support
of information and communication technology. The process of learning,
which includes the separation of teacher and student, is becoming
more frequent and is realized through time synchronized or non-synchronized
intervals, meanly depending on the selection of a technical device.
Moreover, the distance is continuously changing (increasing), insuring
high-quality computer and hypermedia communication.
The employment of information
and communication technology in education and instruction is usually
defined through student-computer interaction and consequently considered
as learning about the computer, learning with computer and
learning from computer. The process of teaching in Croatian
educational system is for the most part concentrated on the
modality of learning about the computer, aiming to improve
the education and instruction by the computer employment in text
editing, spreadsheet calculation, data base work, as well as Internet
connection. As a matter of course, this is the very first and at
the same time imperative level, while learning with computer
and learning from computer is still not appropriate researched,
as well as applied.
In order to promote and
support its development and employment, we made a systemic approach
to this field during the last decade, concentrating on the following
fields of interest and research:
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hypermedia authoring shell for the
generation of intelligent tutoring systems,
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distributed distance learning systems
and
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user interfaces and adaptive user interfaces
in intelligent tutoring systems.
Only a part of this extensive
research is presented in this paper and due to its comprehensiveness
it is split in three sections, according to previous ordering. The
conclusion and the literature are included in the last section.
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