In this talk we describe an ongoing effort at Sarnoff Corporation to develop distance learning and collaboration tools as part of a large scale project on Web-based education. We will describe the goals of the project and the current tasks under way. We will also describe some of the tools being created, concentrating specially on Cartopapher, a novel distance leaming tool now under development. Cartographer has several interesting features, including: helping the teacher organize Web-based courses;providing the student with a dynamic course map that is m&ed and augmented as the student progresses through the course; and providing teacher feedback on student progress and leaming behavior. 70
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