A Novel Approach to E-learning Content Creation
Tongbo Chen Mingchao Ma Christoph Meinel Volker SchillingsAbstract
Modern information technologies are transforming the way people learn. E-learning provides new possibilities for personalized learning at home or in the workplace, reduces the need for costly classroom training, and enables an optimal balance between traditional and innovative forms of knowledge transfer. But facts have proved that content creation for online courses are time consuming and costly. Also most of them are not easy to call up. A simple and efficient solution of content creation for online courses is strongly required. Our new system, tele-TASK [2] - Teleteaching Anywhere Solution Kit, paves the way for these requirements. It opens up a new world of learning opportunities to learners, trainers, course authors, companies and educational institutions. With the help of the new developed system tele-TASK a new, drastically simplified entrance technology for on-line lectures has been reached. From his apartment or office each PC user with a suitable Internet connection can follow online lessons comfortably. Not only contents of teaching, which are presented to the students in the lecture-room by either a whiteboard or a video beamer are delivered but also video and audio of the lecturer. For tele-TASK a special hardware (t-Cube) is now available, which permits the creation of Real or Mpeg4 streams in different bandwidth ranges on the fly. Thus a preinstalled standard player can be used.
Paper
Tongbo Chen, Mingchao Ma, Christoph Meinel, and Volker Schillings. A novel Approach to e-learning content creation. m-ICTE, 2003, pp. 410-414. PDF