2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Virtual Room Concepts for Cooperative, Scientific Work
Authors : Sabine Cikic, Sabina Jeschke, Nadine Ludwig, Uwe Sinha
Published in: Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
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Cooperative knowledge spaces offer new potentials for experimental and scientific work in the current fields of engineering and natural sciences. Widely accepted content management systems often only provide simple content in combination with communication tools; cooperative knowledge spaces are able to project the concept of natural cooperative work onto virtual rooms. In this article we introduce our concept of virtual rooms for scientific and educational work. We describe requirements for complex cooperative work in virtual knowledge spaces where the rooms are arranged in a dynamic, heterogeneous network and incorporate experimental laboratory equipment, shared whiteboards and version‐controlled documents. We developed this concept in the context of our project ViCToR‐Spaces (Virtual Cooperation in Teaching and Research for Mathematics and Natural Sciences) and are currently implementing some of the parts of the concept. Index Terms ‐ cooperative knowledge spaces, virtual and remote laboratories, virtual rooms, cooperative education and work