Technology Opportunities in Education I
Developments in Object Web (Java, CORBA databases etc) will give higher quality basic curricula with glossaries, database backends, reusable objects etc.
- More modular approach to educational material
Virtual Laboratories for Science -- including computer science (programming)
- See Phy105/106 Applets, VRML2 as in Visible Human, languages from Fortran to SQL with Web Interfaces
Voice(RealAudio) and Video(H263) capture of teacher as augmentation of lecture curricula material
- Record when teacher is delivering to capture adrenaline enhancements
Searchable video archives for finding critical few minute length clips to use in class
- More useful han searching 10,000 movies for “Jaws 7” which makes poor use of digital video