A collaborative document management environment for teaching and learning (poster session)

Abstract

1. THE IDEA The basic idea behind the sTeam project (structuring information in a team) is to provide students and teachers with technical means to create their own personal memories, archives and libraries by referring to a largely incoherent environment of distributed knowledge. The sTeam approach embodies a strict learner centred perspective. To accomplish this, we have developed a client-server system that combines two traditionally separated architectures, document management systems (DMS) and collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). Since future developments should be based on learners` experiences, an open source approach has been taken.