Video browsing for course-on-demand in distance learning

The rapid evolution of communication technologies, contributed by the advanced data networks, which enable the integration of multimedia information processing and have greatly impacted our approach to distance learning. Several new multimedia features are developed and reported in this paper. These features allow students to browse the lecture contents directly on digital video sequences while also providing access to multimedia information like lecture captions, databases or handbooks with additional information or another video sequence to explain the current contents. Using these multimedia features, students can learn the course more effectively as compared to learning from conventional analog media in the distance learning environments