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Reusability and adaptability of interactive resources in Web-based educational systems

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Abdulmotaleb El Saddik,

Stephan Fischer,

Ralf SteinmetzAuthors Info & Claims

Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), Volume 1, Issue 1es

Pages 4 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/376697.376699

Published: 01 March 2001 Publication History

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The production of interactive multimedia content is in most cases an expensive task in terms of time and cost. Hence, optimizing production by exploiting the reusability of interactive multimedia elements is mandatory. Reusability can be triggered by a combination of resuable multimedia components and the appropriate use of metadata to control the components as well as their combination.

In this article, we discuss the reusability aspects of interactive multimedia content in web-based learning systems. In contrast to existing approaches, we extend a component-based architecture to build interactive multimedia visualization units with the use of metadata for reusability and customizability.

In the three-tier model, the lowest layer of the paradigm corresponds to the programmer (code reusability). The user interface of an educational visualization is located at the top layer where the interaction with the end-user (student) takes place. The educator is located between the top and the bottom layers. This medium layer allows adapting interactive multimedia content according to the needs of the user, applying a predefined set of metadata. The teacher can both adjust the level of explanation and the level of interactivity of an animation, and influence the presentation and the results of the algorithms being illustrated (program reusability). After a theoretical overview, we explain our architecture by giving an example of an application.

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Reviewer: Edward Baker James

This is a well-organized paper describing in a new environment a problem that is essentially as old as computing. The authors discuss the reusability and adaptability of interactive multimedia sequences in web-based learning systems. They turn down traditional schemes for using static metadata to describe those sequences, for as they point out, a dynamic process such as an animation cannot be given a static description. Instead, they develop the concept of “dynamic metadata,” which they regard as an extension of the IEEE Learning Objects Metadata, and which seems to be a very deeply parameterized description of a multimedia process. The hope is that the re-user will be able to reuse the multimedia object by varying the described parameters as required. This problem varies little in essence from the old search for a way of re-employing old procedures as part of new programs. The eventual aim is to construct whole new systems by cobbling together previous components, but assembling them at a level above the programming language in which they were originally constructed. I believe that it is important to keep in view our final objective: to minimize the amount of work we need to do in order to complete a “program.” If the effort involved in the creation of the reusable object and its comprehension by the re-user is greater than the effort of reprogramming from scratch, then we have lost. But we must go on trying, and I wish this worthy work the success it deserves. Online Computing Reviews Service

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Journal on Educational Resources in Computing Volume 1, Issue 1es

March 2001

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DOI:10.1145/376697

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