Tuesday, June 28
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
UTC
Salon Jarry

Beyond the "E" in e-Learning: A Technical Perspective

Tutorial ID: 13477
  1. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
    University of Ottawa

Abstract: The tutorial first presents a brief overview of multimedia applications needed for e-learning and shows some java applets and video clips of emerging multimedia services. It then introduces the fundamental networking technologies used for multimedia-based e-services. Particular emphasis is placed on the basic video and audio conferencing techniques, including the entire MPEG and H263. Next, the Internet protocols and languages, which are essential for the development of E-learning system, will be discussed. Fundamental e-security procedures and protocols are presented, as also new authentication and content protection procedures such as digital watermarking. The tutorial also demonstrates new multimedia applications in e-commerce, tele-learning, tele-collaboration, tele-training and tele-medicine using Collaborative Virtual Reality.

Objectives

More and more people are coming into contact with internet-based learn systems and websites that are rich in multimedia (graphics, animation, sound and video). This tutorial is for beginners as well as intermediate. Its objective is to present the state-of-the-art in multimedia enabling technologies, services and applications, over a variety of networks and protocols, with emphasis on giving practical advice on which multimedia technology to use for developing e-learning systems.

Topical Outline

Detailed Outline: Introduction Recent history of multimedia technologies for e-learning Business and home multimedia applications Digital Image, Video and Audio Compression in Multimedia Communications Compression needs in Multimedia Video services, bandwidth and storage needs Image and video coding standards: JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, H.263 Software Compression/Decompression Networking Technology for Multimedia Local Area Networks (LAN): "legacy" LANs (Ethernet, Token Ring) Wireless LANs and Wireless Personal Area Networks IEEE 802.11 Bluetooth Wide Area Networking (WAN) Key WAN Services for Multimedia Bridges and Routers Multimedia and the Internet The World Wide Web WWW Architecture and HTTP Browsers Hypertext and Hypermedia Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) HTML Forms and CGI (Common Gateway Interface) XML DHTML Java and Javascript Java Servlets (JSP) Active Server pages Wiresess Internet and Wireless application Protocol (WAP) Multimedia conferencing and collaboration tools Conferencing standards Conferencing market evolution Conferencing systems Tele-collaboration tools e-learning and e-Security Cryptography Public key Encryption Secure Sockets Layer, SHTTP, IPSec,SMIME Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) Attacks on e-security Digital Watermarking for e-content Classification of watermarks Image, video, audio and text watermarking techniques Virtual Reality as a new e-learning Medium Distributed Virtual Environments Applications in industrial training, e-learning, tele-collaboration

Prerequisites

This tutorial is for beginners as well as intermediate. At the end of the tutorial, the audience will be familiar with most of the basic Internet and home protocols and multimedia services used for virtual classrooms, synchronous and asynchronous learning environments. We will have also enjoyed some new applications of Virtual Reality in collaborative multimedia environments and have used multimedia visualization units (http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~elsaddik/abedweb/applets/Applets/applets.html) to explain multimedia techniques and technologies.

Experience Level

Beginner

Qualifications

Dr. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is associate professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of Ottawa. He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab). He received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) and M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany in 1995, and 2001 respectively. He has wide expertise in software engineering development of configurable and adaptable component-based multimedia modules and large scale learning systems. He has led the development of a novel multimedia tele-collaborative environment (JASMINE). He has authored and co-authored two (2) books and more than 40 publications in the areas of software engineering development of multimedia artefacts and shared environments. Dr. El Saddik is Associate Editor of the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC). He serves in the program committee (as chair) of several conferences and workshops related to multimedia communications. He is Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a founding member of the Arab Computer Society (ACS). He is the recent winner of the prestigious Canadian “Premier's Research Excellence Awards” (PREA). For more information please refer to: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~elsaddik
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