From CD-ROM to Web-served: reverse engineering of an interactive multimedia course

Author

Maraschi, Daniele ; Cerri, Stefano A. ; Martinengo, Gianna

Author_Institution

LIRMM, Montpellier, France

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

203

Lastpage

204

Abstract

The Web offers advantages for learning technologies, but the interactivity necessary for the learner requires technical features that are currently hardly supported. The authors briefly describe how a traditional multimedia course, usually marketed as offline CD-ROMs, has been reverse engineered to a server-based, multi-client Web application in order to have an identical behaviour at the learner´s site. The new course consists of XML/XSL documents programmed by server-driven Java functionalities managing the conversations with the remote learners. Abstraction and generalisation to other courses and/or interactive Web applications or services, become feasible, easy and reusable because all middleware technologies are open source

Keywords

Java; client-server systems; educational computing; educational courses; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; interactive systems; public domain software; reverse engineering; teaching; CD-ROM; XML/XSL documents; interactive Web applications; interactive multimedia course; learning technologies; middleware technologies; offline CD-ROMs; open source technologies; remote learners; reverse engineering; server-based multi-client Web application; server-driven Java functionalities; Animation; CD-ROMs; Collaboration; Computer languages; Humans; Java; Middleware; Reverse engineering; Web server; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Madison, WI

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1013-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2001.943900

Filename

943900