A multimedia distance learning system on the Internet

Author

Tsang, H.W. ; Hung, L.M. ; Ng, S.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Math., Hong Kong Inst. of Vocational Educ., Hong Kong

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

243

Abstract

The recent emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) and Internet has changed the study life of many people. Online learning through the WWW will become popular in the next decade. In this paper, we introduce a multimedia distance learning tool which enables online education through the Internet. Learn@Net is a server-based distance learning system which is designed to provide centralized, flexible control and easy administration of online distance learning applications. It relies on an open architecture based on TCP/IP, HTML, Java and SQL. Its functions include a virtual classroom, an assignment handler, a course material browser, a discussion forum and an online chat room, so as to facilitate both online teaching and online learning through the WWW

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; educational technology; information resources; multimedia systems; HTML; Internet; Java; Learn@Net; SQL; TCP/IP; World Wide Web; administration; assignment handler; centralized flexible control; course material browser; discussion forum; multimedia distance learning system; online chat room; online education; online learning; online teaching; open architecture; server-based distance learning system; virtual classroom; Centralized control; Computer aided instruction; Control systems; HTML; Internet; Java; Multimedia systems; TCPIP; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.825265

Filename

825265