Overview
Today, we can observe several commercial learning systems based on WWW
technology. But there were problems that come from conventional
technology;
- Such a system forces learners to click and show pages by
themselves.
- When an instructor creates his or her own contents by using
existing Web pages, it is difficult to reuse existing Web pages.
It is because there are gaps between intentions of authors
of the pages and the instructor.
We applied our Web Operation Recorder to a distance learning system to
solve these problems. We did joint research with
Zenjin Education Institute, Tamagawa Gakuen to evaluate our
technologies in a school education.
About Web Operation Recorder
Web Operation Recorder was developed by IBM's Tokyo Research
Laboratory. It records not only operations of Web browsing, such as URL
transitions, page scrolling, and mouse movement, but also object
annotations on Web pages. You can put text on a Web page to explain the
page or new hyperlinks without any modification on its HTML files.
Features and functions of our distance learning system
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With Web Operation Recorder, you can easily create your own contents
that have (1) automatic page loading and scrolling, (2) making
annotations on an the Web page. The contents help learners know where is
an important part in a Web page.
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By attaching annotations to a Web page, an instructor can show an
important part of the page and show his or her comment on the page. In
this way, instructors can reuse not only their pages but also existing
pages on the Internet.
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In our system, data volume of the contents is much smaller than
conventional multimedia authoring tools. Therefore, you can apply our
system to low band width network environment.
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Our system enables you to show an example operations of Web-based
applications, which is difficult to explain by using a paper or an
static Web pages.
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