Currently our society changes from an industrial to an information society. In this context multimedia technology is becoming more and more important. Multimedia technology is an emerging dynamic research area of information processing. The application of the concept of interactive multimedia teaching and learning requires a high amount of competence. New skills and jobs show up and change as dynamically as the technical possibilities and economic requirements. It is therefore most important to offer an adequate education in this area. The industrial requirements in the internationally expanding multimedia market can thus be fulfilled.
Traditionally the education in multimedia is done, as in other areas, by university courses as well as by books (for example Steinmetz 98 and Steinmetz & Nahrstedt 95) which are used in a traditional way to teach contents. More and more, however, the question arises how technologies which tend to become more and more complex and the continually growing amount of information can be taught effectively. Also it is still not well understood how multimedia technology can be used for electronic teaching and learning systems to meet these requirements. current knowledge in this area and the use of corresponding tools and technologies is and will be an integral factor of the economic success of a society.
It is the goal of this proposed project to develop and examine a generic, networked multimedia-environment for teaching and learning. With regard to traditional learning methods such as books or traditional on-line tutorials, the power of multimedia components shall be used to create a highly interactive environment. Using the example of self-instructive interactive materials for the teaching of multimedia technology, the usability of this concept is to be shown. A computer can only be a tool which never can replace a teacher, it assists the teaching process. The development of multimedia contents in this environment will therefore use the possibilities of current teaching and learning technologies and methodologiesto open a new hardly explored field of research concerning the teaching and learning process.
To conduct this project, the participants will apply joint research, education and know-how transfer, co-ordinated development of software prototypes, and joint publication of papers in the area of telecommunications, multimedia, and open distributed computing.
KOM: Industrial Process and System Communications
Dept. of Electrical Eng. & Information Technology
Darmstadt University of Technology
Merckstr. 25 ¥ D-64283 Darmstadt ¥ Germany
Phone: +49-6151-16-6150
Fax: +49-6151-16-6152
URL: http://www.kom.e-technik.tu-darmstadt.de/
E-mail: Ralf.Steinmetz@kom.tu-darmstadt.de
Abdulmotaleb.El-Saddik@kom.tu-darmstadt.de
LINTI: Depto. de Informatica.
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires,
Republica Argentina
Phone: +54-21-223528
Fax: +54-21-257240
URL: http://www.linti.unlp.edu.ar/
E-mail: jdiaz@unlp.edu.ar
lmarro@tron.fi.uba.ar
cbanchof@ada.info.unlp.edu.ar
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A Framework for collaborative Multimedia-based Learning