WHEN? Tuesday March 25th 1.10pm
WHERE? Caulfield (Bldg A1.11) teleconferenced to Peninsula campus (Bldg A, Rm237)
AND ALSO !! Thursday March 27th 1.00-1.50pm
WHERE? Room G23 Education Building, Clayton campus.
Bernard Holkner is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the Monash Clayton campus. He has been involved in research and development projects using communications and computing technologies for several years and currently has a particular interest in multimedia delivery and authoring and the effects of these technologies on traditional learning environments.
Two projects will be demonstrated and discussed.
In the first, database applications driven through WWW pages permit students to access, modify and receive information from a WWW server which is provided from locally held databases. The faculty is using this system to provide sets of Web pages which are generated “on the fly” from the contents of relational databases. The presentation will also demonstrate a use of this system which allows a “Question and Answer” system to be easily built with full capability for the submitted information to be stored, evaluated, emailed and reported as further Web pages.
The second approach to interactivity uses a “MOO” (Multiple User Object Orientated Domain) which is in effect a kind of role playing environment where individuals can construct their workspace. There is significant research in this area suggesting that as a kind of Virtual Reality, these environments are proving to be interesting and challenging places to learn and interact. The Monash EdMOO has developed a Web interface which includes a Java applet and other code. This allows learners in the shared environment to construct virtual objects, view documents and to display Web resources to other learners which would include graphic, audio and video materials.