TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual programming lab for online distance learning
AU - Cao, Jiannong
AU - Chan, Alvin
AU - Cao, Weidong
AU - Yeung, Cassidy
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - In this paper, we describe the design of the WebVPL system, a Webbased Virtual Programming Lab for on-line distance learning. The underlying setting is a collection of Lab server computers hosting education and programming software. Students use personal computers at home to access over the Internet one of the Lab servers, which performs functions to accommodate various requests from the student such as software usage. The lab servers can be located in different buildings and even at different campuses. WebVPL facilitates resource sharing among different schools and overcomes the limit of geographical distances. The design of the WebVPL system includes the user interface, agent-based client side functions, the structuring of Lab servers, the mechanisms to locate user requested software packages/services and to present various forms of data and information, and the interfaces to various education and programming software packages. We discuss various implementation issues and describe a prototype of the WebVPL.
AB - In this paper, we describe the design of the WebVPL system, a Webbased Virtual Programming Lab for on-line distance learning. The underlying setting is a collection of Lab server computers hosting education and programming software. Students use personal computers at home to access over the Internet one of the Lab servers, which performs functions to accommodate various requests from the student such as software usage. The lab servers can be located in different buildings and even at different campuses. WebVPL facilitates resource sharing among different schools and overcomes the limit of geographical distances. The design of the WebVPL system includes the user interface, agent-based client side functions, the structuring of Lab servers, the mechanisms to locate user requested software packages/services and to present various forms of data and information, and the interfaces to various education and programming software packages. We discuss various implementation issues and describe a prototype of the WebVPL.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937397379&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 216
EP - 227
BT - Advances in Web-Based Learning - 1st International Conference, ICWL 2002, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2002
Y2 - 17 August 2002 through 19 August 2002
ER -