A broadband multimedia TeleLearning system

Author

Wang, Ruiqi ; Karmouch, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Aug. 1996

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

139

Abstract

We discuss a broadband multimedia telelearning system under development in the Multimedia Information Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa. The system aims at providing a seamless environment for telelearning using the latest telecommunication and multimedia information processing technology. It basically consists of a media production center, a courseware author site, a courseware database, a courseware user site, and an online facilitator site. All these components are distributed over an ATM network and work together to offer a multimedia interactive courseware service. An MHEG-based model is exploited in designing the system architecture to achieve the real-time, interactive, and reusable information interchange through heterogeneous platforms. The system architecture, courseware processing strategies, courseware document models are presented.

Keywords

B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; authoring systems; code standards; courseware; database management systems; interactive systems; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; real-time systems; ATM network; MHEG-based model; Multimedia Information Research Laboratory; University of Ottawa; broadband multimedia telelearning system; courseware author site; courseware database; courseware document models; courseware user site; media production center; multimedia information processing; multimedia interactive courseware; online facilitator site; real-time interactive system; system architecture; telecommunication; Multimedia systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996., Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY, USA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7582-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1996.546182

Filename

546182