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Given by Nancy J. McCracken at CPS714 Computational Science Information Track on June 14 99. Foils prepared July 6 99
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| Overview of Function, Technologies and Some Players in Education Portal Area |
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State of the Art in Education Portals and Technology
Ingredients of Web-based Education
Design and authoring systems
Course Management Systems
Content Repositories
Support for secondary materials
Asynchronous delivery
Synchronous and collaborative delivery
Portal building
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| Geoffrey Fox, Nancy McCracken |
| Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University |
| 111 College Place, Syracuse, NY 13244 |
| http://www.npac.syr.edu/ |
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| Design and authoring of new curricula and materials |
| Support for secondary materials such as "addons" (links to examples, text, etc.), glossaries, and programming labs |
| Managing the material and students' response to it, including quizzes, grades and administration |
| Content repositories |
| Delivery of the material in a mix of self-paced (asynchronous or indirect), traditional (synchronous or direct) or collaborative (interactive). |
| Portal building - systems that support at least several of the above. |
| The remainder of this talk gives examples of the above. Of course, some examples could fit into more than one category - we have tried for best fit. |
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Traditional lecture and text preparation:
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Multimedia authoring:
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| WebWisdom NT (under development at NPAC) - combines support for Powerpoint and HTML authoring with database for managing course materials and addons, and interacting with synchronous and collaborative presentation. |
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These are primarily aimed at corporate training
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Here are a few of the many sites with on-line training or courses:
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There is not a lot of support for authoring courses that link presentation materials with illustrating examples, text, glossaries and other secondary material.
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Programming labs
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| Databeam/Lotus LearningServer http://www.databeam.com/ could become interesting but Lotus itself suffers from lack of clean web integration. Shared files have to be displayed in a whiteboard. Databeam was purchased by Lotus and it is not clear what Databeam Learning Server is. They offer a conference center which uses NetMeeting and FarSite which appears to be shared whiteboard. |
| Eloquent http://www.eloquent.com has 100 employees and appears to focus on producing and delivering digital video combined with presentations. This is offered as a service. |
| Microsoft NetShow multimedia delivery from Microsoft |
| RealNetworks Real Media and many systems built around this technology. |
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| Centra http://www.centra.com/ good product aimed at corporate training. Does not have a general collaboration backbone |
| Contigo http://www.contigo.com/ seems more limited than other such delivery systems. |
| CUSeeMe is an enhanced audio-video conferencing tool. |
| Habanero is a good research project, which has not been customized for education |
| ILINC http://www.ilinc.com/ is an interesting product with similar capabilities to parts of WebWisdomNT |
| Microsoft NetMeeting limited collaboration model as shared display |
| ONE TOUCH Systems http://www.onetouch.com/ is also an interesting product with some capabilities shared with WebWisdomNT. |
| Placeware http://www.placeware.com/ aimed at conferencing with good but limited capabilities |
| Tango Interactive from NPAC http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango. |
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| WebCT http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct/ is a good popular and simple authoring and course management system delivering nice integrated course pages. |
| Educause IMS http://www.imsproject.org (Instructional Management System) is industry-education consortium setting standards and delivering reference implementations without good synchronous capabilities. No real products. |
| Blackboard.com http://www.blackboard.com gives free authoring and course management to university professors (also has commercial services). Blackboard.net has contract to test IMS draft standards. |