Using Highly Sophisticated Middleware For Building Arbitrarily Distributed Teaching Environments
Christof Dallermassl, Heimo Haub, Harald Krottmaier, Klaus Schmaranz, Philipp Johann Zambelli · 2000
This paper deals with the development of highly sophisticated teaching environments. We took a look at the requirements that such a system has to fulfill to meet the needs of our modern society and to remain easily adaptable to forthcoming, new technologies. The results of our research show that the cost for design and implementation of a distributed teaching environment can be dramatically reduced by using a middleware system. We thereto present the concepts of the Dinopolis middleware system which is highly modular and extendable and show how it may be used as the basis for the development of teaching environments. Using the Dinopolis middleware system not only eases the process of development but also guarantees that new technologies are becoming available without any further e#ort