Designing effective user interfaces for Web courseware

Current courseware development has moved to integrate multimedia, the WWW a nd Internet techniques. We think that the courseware design should not only put teaching materials on the Web and integrate audio/video facilities, bu t also should focus on other issues, such as user interfaces and software a rchitecture. Our approach is to adapt the general architecture for building a Web site to our courseware development by identifying the roles of syste m programmers, Web developers, and course designers. The user interfaces is the crucial part for a courseware system. This paper introduces the design for effective user interfaces which can help students' learning.