| MINERVA adds immediacy and responsiveness to the internet as
infrastructure for distance learning, perfectly complementing the
globality and multi-media aspects of the internet.
Learning and Teaching are natural applications for client/server
systems. MINERVA allows to add intelligent user interfaces
as until now only known from high level expert systems to
distance learning systems. Interactivity on the client side
give the student freedom to play with ideas without wasting
teacher time and network resources. Tight integration of
static and executable teaching materials become reality.
Consider case studies in physics text books: with MINERVA the models
become exectable, the student can play with "live" experiments.
The hyperlinked space of the world wide web naturally invites
further exploration by students into the "real world".
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