Title :
The distributed and interactive courseware environment (DICE)
Author :
Vickers, B.J. ; Chen, L. ; Kim, J. Bae ; Suda, T. ; Myers, S. ; Lesnansky, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
An architecture for delivering interactive multimedia courseware to schools, known as the Distributed and Interactive Courseware Environment (DICE), is being developed on a testbed consisting of (1) a network-resident architecture supported by a highspeed ATM WAN, (2) a classroom-resident architecture consisting of PC LANs in participating school classrooms, and (3) a satellite communications infrastructure serving as a communications link between the network- and classroom-resident architectures. The network-resident architecture stores and distributes courseware to the receiving classroom-resident architecture via satellite, which has the capability to support widespread, low-cost distribution to dispersively located schools. This paper provides an overview of the DICE system and then focuses primarily on the design of the network-resident architecture
Keywords :
LAN interconnection; computer aided instruction; courseware; direct broadcasting by satellite; multimedia communication; wide area networks; DICE; Distributed and Interactive Courseware Environment; PC LANs; classroom-resident architecture; highspeed ATM WAN; interactive multimedia courseware; network-resident architecture; satellite communications infrastructure; Aircraft; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer science; Courseware; Educational institutions; Material storage; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite communication; Telephony; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Cheju Island
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7125-4
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1995.524971
