Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 17 1999

Foil 16 Design and Architecture of Curricula Material

From Minnowbrook -- the Virtual University After Dinner Talk to Dedicated AFOSR Research Team -- April 15 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
First remember that the web is evolving to the "object web" as "distributed object" and traditional web technologies merge. Whether Sun(Java), Microsoft(COM), W3C (Web Consortium) or OMG (Object Managent Group) win does not matter
  • At a high level they are all distributed objects accessible from the web
So the architecture is that of distributed objects which are designed to be as modular as possible
  • Natural size of basic "educational object" is about a screenfull
Initial design will be traditional -- include
  • Bunch of "foils" (electronic presentation)
  • Bunch of HTML pages (electronic book)
  • Bunch of multimedia dazzle (today's educational CDROM's)
  • The merger of above -- dynamic HTML and Java

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