Multimedia Tools for EducationTutorial

Note: In 1:1 correspondence with:Z. Stanisavljevic, B. Nikolic, I. Tartalja, V.

Milutinovic, “A Survey of Research Efforts in the Field of Advanced Multimedia Tools for

Education”

TAXONOMY – 3D

IGU

NDP

NGU

NGP

IGPIDP

IDU

NDU

C3: "who"

C2: "what"

C1: "how"

C1: "how": from non-interactive to interactive

C2: "what": from domain-specific to general-purpose

C3: "who": from pre-university to university

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TAXONOMY – 2D

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Technologies

SW HW+SW

Desktop Internet HW supported HW based

TAXONOMY – 1D

VATOG Vector

Visus (Sight)

Auditus (Hearing)

Tactus (Touch)

Odoratus (Smell)

Gustus (Taste)

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• Only by intersection of these three parts of the classification one can have a full picture of advanced multimedia tools for education

GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF THE ANALYZED TOOLS

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Title Location Website Ref. Domain

Alice tool USA http://www.alice.org/ [10]software

engineering

BlueJ tool Australia, UK http://www.bluej.org [11]software

engineering

CWRU tool set USA http://drushel.cwru.edu/375/index.html [12] engineering

Dictation tool Serbiahttp://library.iated.org/view/

SPASOJEVIC2011DEV[8] writing

Digital Violin Tutor tool Singapore http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wangye/ [13] music

EDCOMP tool Serbia http://www.ece.uah.edu/~milenka/ [9] computer science

Explore! tool Italyhttp://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/ardito

/Software/Explore/index.htm[14] history

Exspot tool USA http://www.exploratorium.edu [15]generalpurpose

Family Ensemble tool Japan http://bach.ip.is.saga-u.ac.jp/chika-o/profile-e.html [16] music

Haptic/Aural tool USAhttp://research.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/

MEDLAB/research_files/haptics.htm[17] mathematics

Humanoid Robots tool set Taiwan http://hci.csie.ncu.edu.tw/ [18] foreign language

Hyperscore tool USA http://www.hyperscore.com/ [19] music

Jeliot 3 tool Finland http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/ [20]software

engineering

MTM tool set USA http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~klassner/ [21] computer science

PowerPoint tool USA http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/ [22]generalpurpose

Quest Atlantis tool USA http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/ [23] social science

Robovie tool set Japan http://www.irc.atr.jp/~kanda/ [24] foreign language

Seeing Sound tool Australia http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~andrew/ [25] music

Tactile Thermal Display tool

USA http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2049577 [26] art

USIM tool set USAhttp://www.hpl.hp.com/research/

papers/2002/ubiquitous.html[27] general purpose

Wikipedia tool USA http://www.wikipedia.org/ [28] general purpose

CONCLUSION

• Noticed several gaps in the area • Possible new directions for development in the

future– One of these gaps is the use of virtual reality tools in

education– Another gap that is worth mentioning is the lack of tools

that include smell and taste senses

• Confucius– Learning without thought is labor lost– Thought without learning is perilous

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