A multimedia system for asynchronous collaboration using the Multicast Backbone and the World Wide Web

Author

Vetter, Ronald J. ; Jonalagada, Christopher

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

7-10 May 1996

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

63

Abstract

This paper describes a multimedia system called MWEB that is capable of recording and playing back classroom sessions over the Multicast Backbone (MBone) on the Internet. World Wide Web (WWW) clients are used as a front-end for the MWEB system. Offered media include audio, video and shared whiteboard. The goal of the MWEB system was to enhance the capability of an on-going virtual classroom project at North Dakota State University by providing a means for students to access previously recorded classroom sessions from any general purpose computer workstation attached to the Internet

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; multimedia communication; Internet; MWEB; Multicast Backbone; North Dakota State University; World Wide Web; asynchronous collaboration; audio; classroom sessions; front-end; general purpose computer workstation; multimedia system; shared whiteboard; video; virtual classroom project; Audio recording; Collaboration; Internet; Multimedia systems; Spine; Video recording; Video sharing; Web sites; Workstations; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Applications in Communications, 1996. Proceedings., First Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7585-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETACOM.1996.502478

Filename

502478