Macro University: A Framework for a Federation of Virtual Universities

Chang, Shi-Kuo; Arndt, Timothy; Levialdi, S.; Liu, A. C.; Ma, Jun; Shih, Timothy K.; Tortora, Genoveffa

doi:10.1142/s0219427900000168

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“…Many visionaries point at the desirability of combining the educational resources from a large number of academic institutions. The Macro University (Chang, Arndt, Levialdi, Liu, Ma, Shih, & Tortora, 2003;Chang, Hassanein, & Hsieh, 1998) is a distance learning framework that allows many virtual universities to pool their resources together, thus creating a rich virtual learning environment for online study.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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et al. 2006

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

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Growing Book refers to an electronic textbook that is co-developed, and has the ability to be constantly maintained, by groups of independent authors, thus creating a rich and ever-growing learning environment that can be conveniently accessible from anywhere. This work designs and implements a Web Service-based Growing Book that has the merits of single sign-in, multilevel usage, multilingual access, and multimodal multimedia for content sharing. XML Web service techniques and authentication mechanisms are used to provide single sign-in service across distributed Web sites, allowing easy teaching material reusing. Also, a multilingual page switching mechanism for Growing Books is developed and implemented. Challenges during the development of Growing Books are evaluated and analyzed. In addition to the importance of the single sign-in function, our analysis results demonstrate that the content-based features of Growing Book appeal more to students than other features and are often used for immediate judgment of course materials. Furthermore, a multilingual Growing Book is good for worldwide usage and greater accessibility.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Integrating multimedia in educational systems provides many new ways of presenting information that can enhance learning and undestanding [1,2,3,6]. However, a possible drawback of traditional authoring environments is that they only allow for the development of static multimedia components.…”

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“…Among the main research fields in the area of distance learning [1,4,6,9,10], we would like to mention the following:…”

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A multilevel learning management system

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Vitiello

et al. 2002

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Many authoring systems have been realized so far in order to allow users to build advanced presentation of documents. These systems represent the result of a requirement analysis performed in specific application domains and their functionality is meaningful for the domain experts. Consequently, in many cases there exists a barrier between system functionality and users, who have a limited knowledge of the domain: in order to use the application, the content expert end-user has to interact with the application expert. Such a barrier limits the effectiveness and the efficiency of the authoring system, because the development of a multimedia presentation forces the user to acquire experience far from his/her background. In this paper we introduce a new approach to educational authoring, based on a multilevel development methodology. It allows and supports teachers to create their own multimedia learning environment. The proposed approach has been experimented on an initial prototype which allows users to manage multimedia authoring of units of study.

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From Multimedia Micro-University to Macro University and beyond

Arndt

Guercio

2017

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Macro University: A Framework for a Federation of Virtual Universities

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