Raymond Li is a senior lecturer with the Department of Business Systems of Monash University. He teaches BUS3400, a course titled "Multimedia for business", which has received high praise from the multimedia industry. A group of his students won the first multimedia award (tertiary division) in Australia in 1996. Raymond has given a number of talks to both industry and academia. He was the opening speaker at the Australian Computer Society (ACS) 1996 multimedia industry talk, and the key speaker at the last ACS Summer Computer Workshop. He has just completed a tour of Asia. In Malaysia, the Vice Chancellor of the Universiti Pertanian Malaysia invited him to present a seminar on multimedia to senior members of the University. During his visit he met a number of people who are defining the role of multimedia in Malaysia, Singapore and Shanghai and he strongly believes that there are opportunities for Australian academics to take an active part in Asia, in particular the Malaysia Multimedia Corridor project. Besides teaching and research in the areas of multimedia and Project Management, he is also a consultant.
The WWW is a fast moving global phenomenon which poses a challenge and an excellent opportunity for us as educationists. Interactive learning modules can now be made available on the WWW and accessed by individual learners at their choice of time, pace and place of location. This Asynchronous network learning is now a reality. Products such as Asymetrix Instructor II facilitate easy implementation of the Asynchronous Learning Model and the Asymetrix Librarian helps in the management of the interactive multimedia courses globally or on an Intranet.
In this seminar, Raymond will outline the developments in the area of the WWW since it was proposed by Dr. Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. Solutions such as Hybrid CD-ROM application development and Video streaming will be discussed. Raymond will give a demonstration of Asymetrix Toolbook in action. Librarian supports course module in two formats: the Native ToolBook book (.tbk) display using Neuron and the HTML pages with Java. Both formats will be used in the Librarian demonstration. Exporting of a ToolBook application to HTML with Java will also be demonstrated. Raymond will also present a simple way to create interactive course work on the Internet from lecture notes, without programming.