Extending record and playback technologies to support cooperative learning

Abstract

We have long-term experience with developing and employing multimedia materials for on-campus and distance education. We also are assessing the efficacy of cooperative learning where groups of learners explore, with guidance from an instructor, the learning environment and construct models of meaning based on their shared learning experiences. Our core technologies capture and store classroom events, but are record-andplayback technologies focused on delivering content to individual learners. We describe an extension of our technology, Cooperative Learning in MANIC (CLIMANIC), which allows groups of learners and teachers to collaborate and communicate. We describe our current assessment of CLIMANIC and future plans for more extensive evaluation.

Automatic capture and presentation creation from multimedia lectures

“…As highbandwidth access became more widely available, CD-MANIC remained a good solution for delivering multimedia content to distance learners because of its portability and anytime, anyplace approach. MANIC has been extended to add support for navigation, notation, and collaboration so that it better supports a constructivist teaching style for distance and on-campus education, including adding extended search capability [18], a synchronous collaboration mechanism [19], and a Learner Logger [17] tool that captures all student interactions. Learner Logger data provide feedback to the instructor and instructional designers.…”

Applying Information Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning in an African University

“…As high bandwidth access became more widely available, CD-MANIC remained a good solution for delivering multimedia content to distance learners due to its portability and "anytime, anyplace" approach. MANIC has been extended to add support for navigation, notation, and collaboration so that it better supports a constructivist teaching style for distance and on-campus education, including adding extended search capability [5], a synchronous collaboration mechanism [6], and a Learner Logger [4] tool that captures all student interactions. Learner Logger data provide feedback to the instructor and instructional designers.…”

Automatic identification and storage of significant points in a computer‐based presentation

“…Production was reduced to 1-3 production hours per hour of MANIC presentation. Over time, additional functionality such as contextual searches (Kumela et al, 2004), integrated note taking, and collaboration (Ray et al, 2004) was incorporated with in the MANIC browser. The current Java-based version, jMANIC (Wallace et al, 2006), was designed with three goals in mind: cross-platform compatibility (provided by Java), multiple modes of delivery (streamed, downloaded, and CD/DVD), and easy customization.…”