| Developing and Deploying Online Courses with JCourse |
 Wheeler, W., D. Danks, J. Ramsey, R. Scheines, J. Smith, A. Thompson, (2001), Developing and deploying online courses with Jcourse. Proceedings of the Association of the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
AbstractJCourse, created at Carnegie Mellon University, is a Java- and XML-based system for developing and deploying web-based courses. On the development side, JCourse allows content providers to work more independently of web designers than has been previously possible. On the deployment side, JCourse provides basic (albeit incomplete) support for the IMS Question and Test Interoperability v1.0 specification (www.imsproject.org), which allows questions and tests from one compliant system to be reused in other compliant systems. Because Java and XML are platform-independent, JCourse runs on Windows and Unix (including Linux). JCourse was used to create a web-based course on Causal and Statistical Reasoning (www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/csr) that has been successfully used by about 150 students at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University. |