Fred Beshears, "Learning Management Systems Presentation" (2/23/00)
 
Lawrence A. Rowe, "The Future of Interactive Television is Internet Webcasting" (2/21/00)
The BMRC Lecture Browser is a web browser based tool written in Javascript. It incorporates streaming video and synchronized slides, providing remote students an enriched experience which facilitates greater comprehension in a distance learning
environment.
The separate media elements are managed in a database and retrieved by the user in the form standard http requests. Features of the Lecture Browser include the ability to search text and browse media types (e.g., slides and video) independently of
one another.
The functionality of the Lecture Browser has been substantially augmented from original source code provided by Cornell University. BMRC is working to add several additional features including audio search capabilities, bookmarks and an interactive
white board for online students.
BMRC offers the following examples for viewing, but please be aware that this technology is still very much in development and as such cannot be considered stable. In other words, it might crash your browser, possibly forcing you to restart your co
mputer.
In order to view these presentations, users will require the RealNetworks RealPlayer plug-in and a version 4.0 or higher, JavaScript-enabled web browser(e.g., Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer).
Most of the components in the lecture browser window
are self-explanatory. The links in the top portion of the window point to
the URLs of the course, the lecture and the speaker. The buttons in the
middle-right portion will bring up small windows of the slide
images, the slide indices, the search window and the credits window,
respectively. The buttons in the lower left portion control the state
of the video. From left to right, they correspond to Reverse, Stop, Play,
Pause and Fast-foward, respectively. Volume control and the mute button are
in the lower-right portion of the window. At the very bottom, an area
marked red in the the white bar denotes the current slide corresponding to
the video. Users can also click on the bar to jump to the video of another slide.
Papers:
Lawrence A. Rowe and José María González,
"A lecture Browser and Production System" (in preparation.)