WORLD-WIDE WEB-COURSE TOOL - AN ENVIRONMENT FOR BUILDING WWW-BASED COURSES

It is difficult for educators that lack technical background to create sophisticated WWW-based courses. This paper describes Web-CT, an easy -to-use environment for creating WWW-based courses that are otherwise beyond the ability of the non computer programmer. Web-CT not only pro duces courses for the WWW, but also uses WWW browsers as the GUI for t he course-building environment. Web-CT allows the course-author to cre ate a course and then to add a wide variety of tools and features to h is or her course. Examples of tools include bulletin-boards, student s elf-evaluation, navigation tools, timed quizzes, electronic mail, auto matic index generation, and more. New features and tools are continual ly being added to Web-CT.