Title :
A flash-based multimedia interactive tutoring system for distance education of biomedical engineering students: new approach to teaching microcontroller-based systems
Author :
Cho, J.M. ; Choi, S.I. ; Lee, D.K. ; Nam, Y.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Inje Univ., Kimhae, South Korea
Abstract :
In this paper, we present new tutoring system teaching biomedical engineering students the basic concept of internal and external operations of a microcontroller, which is necessary to understand modern microcontroller-based biomedical equipment. The developed tutoring system utilized multimedia contents and maximized the interaction with students for distance education. It also provides movie clips, graphic animations, narrations as well as graphic and text. Movie clips were produced by using WinCam and graphic animations were implemented by using FLASH MX and ActionScript, GIF graphic files and Power Point techniques. This tutoring system includes the basic concept of microcontroller-based system, entire execution process for the each instruction of the instruction set, development of small-sized programs, understanding of operations, control of built-in peripherals and design techniques of simple application programs.
Keywords :
biomedical education; biomedical equipment; computer animation; distance learning; medical computing; microcontrollers; multimedia systems; ActionScript; FLASH MX; GIF graphic files; Power Point techniques; WinCam; biomedical engineering students teaching; built-in peripherals control; distance education; flash-based multimedia interactive tutoring system; graphic animations; microcontroller external operation; microcontroller internal operation; microcontroller-based systems; modern microcontroller-based biomedical equipment; movie clips; narrations; simple application programs design techniques; small-sized programs; Animation; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical equipment; Control systems; Distance learning; Education; Graphics; Microcontrollers; Motion pictures; Multimedia systems;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280916