Title :
A framework for interactive courses and virtual laboratories
Author :
Balmelli, Laurent ; Ayer, Serge ; Cheneval, Yves ; Vetterli, Martin
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Audio-Visual Commun., Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Theory and experimentation are both complementary in sciences. Where the former builds up a formal framework, the latter helps humans to develop their intuition. Hard-printed books are great supports for theorems and formulas repositories, but stay desperately static when providing examples. This paper presents some directions towards a framework for digital publishing, distance learning and computer-aided teaching. The interactive digital signal processing (DSP) book is built in this framework and provides a concrete example to the reader. The book, reachable at http://lcavwww.epfl.ch/DSPBook, is used as a digital support for a course taught by our lab to a third year undergraduate class in electrical engineering
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational aids; educational courses; electrical engineering education; electronic publishing; signal processing; DSP book; computer-aided teaching; digital publishing; digital support; distance learning; electrical engineering; interactive courses; interactive digital signal processing book; third year undergraduate class; virtual laboratories; Books; Education; Electronic publishing; Graphical user interfaces; HTML; Humans; Java; Laboratories; Libraries; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Signal Processing, 1998 IEEE Second Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Redondo Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4919-9
DOI :
10.1109/MMSP.1998.739007
