Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madison, WI
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1013-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2001.943900
