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Foil 23 Technology Opportunities in Education I

From Master Set of WebWisdom Education and Training System: Distributed Objects and Collaboration SC97 Education Presentation and Later NSF Physics (Dec 3) -- 16 November97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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

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