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Foil 18 Collaboration

From Role of Technology in Online Education and Training PET Training Session DoD HPC Modernization UGC -- June 2 98. by Anoop Gupta from Microsoft Research


Asynchronous collaboration
  • major successes: email and bulletin boards
  • new addition: "in-context" annotations
    • annotatable web ==> e.g., notes in the margin
    • annotatable video ==> e.g., classroom discussion
    • annotations stored separately from content
Synchronous collaboration
  • Feedback for "live" content
    • vote counting, pace / applause / nodding-off meters, ...
    • back channel for questions, shared white boards, ...
  • Distributed Tutored Video Instruction (D-TVI)
    • wired-together VCR controls; chat for discussion
    • may need to mix analog/digital technologies
  • "Awareness" tools



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