HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared 24 March 1996 Foil 14 Possible Uses of Digital Video in Education
From Web Technologies for Education Master Presentation Workshop on Education and Training Technology -- NIST -- 25 March 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color GIF
- 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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