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Foil 16 What do Collaborative Systems Provide?

From Distance Education and its Technology Chautauqua Albuquerque New Mexico -- 9 August 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Overall Management of a lecture viewed as part of a learning environment built around a Web Resource
Audio/Video Conferencing (Can use Access Grid or lower end desktop resources -- need ~$300 PC VTC Card in TangoInteractive implementation)
Chat Rooms and electronic mail for synchronous and asynchronous messages
Shared Web Pages which can come from a database
Whiteboard for communicating visual material
Shared Java applets which can be embedded in web pages to allow interactive lesson components
API to interface specialized resources -- Planning Tools, GIS Systems, CAD, Visualization .. -- not necessary for training?



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