Multimedia distance learning without the wait

Abstract

Web-linked Digital Video Dish provide highquality interactive multimedia presentations and virtual laboratories with web-access for timely materials and collaboration. We present techniques for presentation, interaction, and assessment. Experimental modules using these techniques have been developed using multimedia systems as content. New assessment methods allow materials to be dynamically rnodij?ed to satis& diferent learner backgrounds and objectives. A new software tool has been developed for gathering user statistics to best adapt the curriculum as well as evaluate the overall learning efficiency across diverse learner populations. The project is being disseminated at

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.…”

“…In 2000, CD-MANIC was developed as a mechanism for delivering bandwidth-intensive high-quality video, synchronized and indexed with lecture slides, to users who faced bandwidth limitations [17]. CD-MANIC was designed to use the network to check for updates to slides, and this activity requires very little bandwidth.…”

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.…”

“…MANIC initially was developed as a platform for testing streaming multimedia network protocols; and its initial incarnation involved synchronizing HTML slides with streaming audio. In 2000, CD-MANIC was developed as a mechanism for delivering bandwidth intensive high quality video, synchronized and indexed with lecture slides, to users who still at that time faced bandwidth limitations [4]. CD-MANIC was designed to use the network to check for updates to slides, and this activity requires very little bandwidth.…”

MANIC content delivery in a mobile application

“…The MANIC [2], [20] framework is used to deliver both live and authored presentations, coupling them with text, graphics, and search/index mechanisms and delivering the content through streaming servers and downloads and on CD/DVD. MANIC initially was developed as a platform for testing streaming multimedia network protocols.…”