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Streaming MultiMedia Course Materials Project

Brian Molinari   , Director, Scholarly Technology Services, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601. Email:brian.molinari@anu.edu.au

Shane Nuessler , Software Engineer, Educational Design Services, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601.
Email: shane.nuessler@anu.edu.au

Keywords

Multimedia, Streaming, Course, Slides, Video, Audio, On-line

Abstract

The School of Finance and Applied Statistics, Faculty of Economics, approched Scholarly Technology Services with a request for assistance to create online streaming multimedia versions of lecture material.

Typically a lecture in this program is built around a set of PowerPoint slides and the lecturer weaves a lecture presentation around these slides.  The lecture might use a spiral technique in that a basic concept might be traversed several times.  Points are reiterated and the presentation may be discursive rather than being concise.

The experiment proposed did not involve the direct capture to digital format of the lecture presentation (audio and video).  Rather, PowerPoint slides are combined with more concise
commentary prepared by the lecturer, which provides the essentials and a summary.  This "interview" version of the lecture is convenient to create and is made available to students as a supplement or as an alternative to the conventional lecture.  Collected together these interviews form the basis of a streaming multi-media publication of the course.

Real Networks technology was selected as the streaming technology of choice for this project due to a number of factors including:

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