The specification and implementation of a virtual university software system

Author

Shih, Timothy K. ; Chang, Anthony Y. ; Chen, Yemoz-Huei ; Ma, Jianhua ; Huang, Runhe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Software, Univ. of Aizu, Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

385

Lastpage

392

Abstract

Distance learning is one of the interesting research topics of distributed computing. This paper discusses a joint research project between the University of Aizu in Japan and Tamkang University in Taiwan. A software system supporting virtual university operations is proposed. The software architecture is designed based on three criteria of virtual university operations: administration, awareness and assessment. Specifications of each tools in the system are proposed, with some implementation details and solutions being discussed. We also point out some interesting research directions in the realization of a virtual university

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; distributed processing; educational computing; formal specification; multimedia systems; software architecture; teleconferencing; Internet; World Wide Web; administration; assessment; awareness; distance learning; distributed computing; group communication; joint research project; multimedia education; software architecture; software system implementation; software system specification; video conferencing; virtual university; Computer aided instruction; Educational technology; Information retrieval; Internet; Multimedia systems; Postal services; Software systems; Tail; Videoconference; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Iwate

ISSN

1521-9097

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0568-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.2000.857721

Filename

857721