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Foil 72 Possible Uses of Digital Video in Education

From Web Application and Services Overview as of June96 NASA ICASE Tutorial -- June 10-13 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
Clearly digital audio and video supports the type of collaborative environments needed for good teaching
  • this is natural use by consultants in distributed computer centers as envisaged by NSF resolicitation for supercomputer centers
Digital video (in fashion similar to VRML 2.0) can be annotated to provide much more interactive results of scientific simulations
  • This is video equivalent of clickable 3D VRML scenes discussed earlier and is "academic" version of consumer interactive Movies where you can choose paths etc.
Digital Audio and Video is currently less than 5% of web data but eventually it will be dominant (95%) form of digital information and serving will be major Web activity.
Broad distribution requires ISDN-ATM speeds but can deliver from local WebServers as only needs Ethernet or less for each client
  • This is "Education in a box " -- ship multimedia courses on a Windows NT server to remote sites
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