Title:

Virtual Environment for Collaborative Distance Learning With Video Synchronization

Author(s):

Gupta, Suhit
Kaiser, Gail E.

Date:

2004

Type:

Technical reports

Department:

Computer Science

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:29211

Series:

Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports

Part Number:

CUCS-008-04

Publisher:

Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

Publisher Location:

New York

Abstract:

We present a 3D collaborative virtual environment, CHIME, in which geographically dispersed students can meet together in study groups or to work on team projects. Conventional educational materials from heterogeneous backend data sources are reflected in the virtual world through an automated metadata extraction and projection process that structurally organizes container materials into rooms and interconnecting doors, with atomic objects within containers depicted as furnishings and decorations. A novel in-world authoring tool makes it easy for instructors to design environments, with additional in-world modification afforded to the students themselves, in both cases without programming. Specialized educational services can also be added to virtual environments via programmed plugins. We present an example plugin that supports synchronized viewing of lecture videos by groups of students with widely varying bandwidths.

Subject(s):

Computer science

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