Web-Based Learning Systems: A « document technology » approach Dr Christine VANOIRBEEK Swiss Federal Institute of Tehnology Computer Science Dpt (LITH - MEDIA) IN Ecublens 1015 Lausanne [email protected] OUTLINE ! E- learning? ! Benefits of a « document technology » approach ! Perspectives © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (2) 1 E-LEARNING Traditional learning vs e-learning? © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (3) E-LEARNING ! Access and share of multimedia digital data ! User interface ! Communication and collaboration © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (4) 2 DOCUMENT TECHNOLOGY (Dealing with data on the Web) Internet Mpeg OpenDoc http HTML WAIS DTD XML Jpeg TIFF TCP/IP Ethernet Intranet XML-Schema WWW Servlet Java Corba DSSSL Smil XSL CSS SQL Postscript Workflow SGML DBMS PDF XLink XPointer MathML JDBC SVG JDBC © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL HyTime CML EDI Bern, 23.03.2001 (5) DOCUMENT TECHNOLOGY: MODELLING Internet Mpeg OpenDoc http TIFF Corba SGML XML-Schema SQL DSSSL Smil XSL CSS Postscript DBMS PDF © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL DTD XML WWW Servlet Java Workflow HTML WAIS Jpeg TCP/IP Ethernet Intranet JDBC Bern, 23.03.2001 JDBC XLink HyTime XPointer MathML SVG CML EDI (6) 3 DOCUMENT TECHNOLOGY: RESTITUTION Internet Mpeg OpenDoc http HTML WAIS DTD XML Jpeg TIFF TCP/IP Ethernet Intranet XML-Schema WWW Servlet Java Corba DSSSL Smil XSL CSS SQL Postscript Workflow SGML DBMS PDF XLink XPointer MathML JDBC SVG JDBC © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL HyTime CML EDI Bern, 23.03.2001 (7) DOCUMENT TECHNOLOGY: HYPERTEXT Internet Mpeg OpenDoc http TIFF Corba SGML XML-Schema SQL DSSSL Smil XSL CSS Postscript DBMS PDF © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL DTD XML WWW Servlet Java Workflow HTML WAIS Jpeg TCP/IP Ethernet Intranet JDBC Bern, 23.03.2001 JDBC XLink HyTime XPointer MathML SVG CML EDI (8) 4 DOCUMENT TECHNOLOGY: APPLICATION Internet Mpeg OpenDoc http HTML WAIS DTD XML Jpeg TIFF TCP/IP Ethernet Intranet XML-Schema WWW Servlet Java Corba SQL DSSSL Smil XSL CSS Postscript Workflow DBMS PDF SGML JDBC HyTime XPointer MathML SVG JDBC © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL XLink Bern, 23.03.2001 CML EDI (9) INTEROPERABILITY Telelaboratory (Classroom 2000 project - SNF) text exercises quiz animation measurement www © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (10) 5 INTEROPERABILITY ! Telelaboratory (user interface) © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (11) INTEROPERABILITY ATM ISD N filte r filte r IP X .2 5 filte r FR f il t e r filte r X M L g e n er a to r XM L W EB P r o toc o l A T M cell V PI / VC I PT 0 U n i v e r s a l u s e r in t e r f a c e ( A p p l e t ) © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (12) 6 INTEROPERABILITY © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (13) INTEROPERABILITY ! Benefit of document technology approach? • Data flow = structured document • Structuring vs programming? ! Dealing with one protocol more (ISDN, TCP-IP,…) --> no modification in the program sources ! Platform independence ! Reuse of data within other applications © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (14) 7 INTERACTION Remote manipulation (eMersion project – FIT board) Trial-and-error paradigm ... © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (15) INTERACTION Cockpit Metaphor Lab Journal Lab Model © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (16) 8 REUSABILITY Knowledge Knowledge Space © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (17) REUSABILITY Flexible document fragments (OO design) © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (18) 9 COLLABORATION Production of documents (NICE project SNF/ERCIM) Spatial metaphor © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (19) PERSPECTIVES ! Using mobile devices • One example: Acces to a program course • More about this topic " Summarization " …. © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (20) 10 PERSPECTIVES ! Modeling data to promote interoperability • Reusability • Interaction • Access (to multimedia data) ! Combining skills ! © 2000 C. Vanoirbeek, EPFL Bern, 23.03.2001 (21) 11