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This paper is to report a previous project on showing how physically classroom training, web-based course materials and web-based communication can help in teaching an e-business development course. The various planning and implementation issues in this project will also be discussed.
The case addressed in this paper was about a virtual laboratory for an undergraduate course in City University of Hong Kong (CityU). One of the major objectives in this course is to design and develop an e-business application using existing programming tools and software packages. Students can learn the concepts of an Electronic Commerce (EC) website and follow the steps to build up a complete EC website. With the support of this virtual laboratory, the development and learning process can be carried out at any place of the world where Internet access is available.
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Leung, F., Chau, T., Tang, T., Liao, S. (2003). A Virtual Laboratory for an Online Web-Based Course-’Rapid E-business Systems Development’. In: Zhou, W., Nicholson, P., Corbitt, B., Fong, J. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2003. ICWL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2783. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45200-3_10
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