an interactive online museum in four rooms on the e-learning platform ILIAS based on the information provided by the Online Companion to Middle English Literature,
offering various kinds of audio and video clips, slide shows, podcasts, and flash animations,
an elaborate system of self-testing and recursive elements are integrated,
course members communicate via blogs, wikis, Skype etc.
What is melon good for?
MELON organizes the learners’ progress by exemplary tours through a virtual museum,
it re-organizes the learners’ knowledge acquired by OCMEL studies and offers various kinds of self-test formats,
provides groups of learners with all kinds of modern communication.
the Online Companion to Middle English Literature was originally produced as an Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook by a group of students and teachers in 1997 and revised as a HTML Version in 2002,
it offers a more or less complete survey over Middle English literature organized according to authors, genres, history and special topics,
self-testing modules and guided tours were planned, but have never been implemented,
thus, the OCMEL has remained a valuable online work of reference, but lacks didactic organization,
the new MELON module now partly makes up for these deficiencies.
