A WWW-based multimedia center for learning data communications — phase 1

Authors:
Ali Elkateeb;Ala Awad
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, BOP lXO, Canada;School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, BOP lXO, Canada
Venue:
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Year:
2000

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Abstract

The use of multimedia in education has become an important element to improve the quality of education and to reduce the cost of the educational system. In addition, the students got the benefit of learning and understanding the material better than in the conventional way. In this work, a learning package called "Data Communications Learning Center" (DCLC) has been developed and tested. The main objective of this center is to help university students and others to learn data communication concepts, architectures and operations. The center is a world wide web (www) based, and it allows any student that uses a standard modem for the Internet access to use our center. The center has been developed to be easy to use. The initial evaluation of the center examined by a few students have complemented that the center has improved their understanding to some data communication concepts which the center already supports. Although our intention is to support one topic at the first stage of this project, one can easily add other topics to the center. Any professor who is willing to put his course in the center can achieve this without any prior knowledge about the internal design of the center.