Architecting Multimedia Environments for Teaching

  • Authors:
  • Gerald Friedland;Karl Pauls

  • Affiliations:
  • Freie Universität Berlin;Freie Universität Berlin

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Despite today's many technological enhancements, most teachers still rely on well-establishedprimitive aids such as the chalkboard, one of history's earliest teaching tools. To help integratecomputational devices into the classroom and take advantage of the capabilities they offer, the authorspropose building a reliable, ubiquitous, adaptable, and easy-to-use technology-integrating black box tosupport a multimedia environment. Placing this system atop a service-oriented component modelimplemented on a platform-independent layer such as a virtual machine will provide the adaptabilitydevelopers need, offering loosely coupled components that will accommodate a nonmonolithic approach andease reuse. By reusing and enhancing components, the system will become increasingly reliable, while a building-block architecture will keep it manageable.