Asynchronous Collaboration around Multimedia and its Application to On-Demand Training

  • Authors:
  • D. Bargeron;A. Gupta;J. Grudin;E. Sanocki;F. Li

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 4 - Volume 4
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Multimedia content is a central component of on-demand training and education delivered over the World Wide Web. Supporting asynchronous collaboration around educational multimedia is a key requirement for making the online educational environment effective. A multimedia annotation system tightly integrated with email provides a powerful platform on which to base such functionality. Building on our earlier work with multimedia annotations [3], we present user interface and system extensions to support asynchronous collaboration for on-demand training. We report results from a study of the effectiveness of the system, including student experience, instructor experience, and user interface appropriateness. Overall, the student experience was positive: they appreciated the flexibility of on-demand delivery and benefited from the collaborative features.