WebLenses – an online, in-context, learning support environment

WebLenses “bring online information into focus” by providing different tools (“lenses”) which can be applied to online content, within context, in order to visualize, annotate, interactively explore, and otherwise engage the learned material. While the implemented system narrowly focuses on a single topic within the domain of College Statistics and offers a small set of lenses, WebLenses is an extensible environment, able to support more domains and more lenses. The WebLenses support learning through just-in-time, as-needed, interactive resources, leveraging guided noticing, differentiated perception, and time and context relevancy.