MAPPING THE CLASSROOM INTO THE WEB: CASE STUDIES FROM SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS
Gerald H Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas · 2003
The paper describes our research with a system that automatically produces web based education out of regular classroom lectures. In the classroom, the lecturer writes on a wide pen sensitive display in place of the traditional chalkboard. The system records all actions and makes it possible to replay the lecture from the web at any time. Remote students follow the lecture looking at the dynamic board content and listening to the recorded voice of the instructor. In addition to drawings, the new chalkboard handle s a range of multimedia elements from the Internet. Using handwriting recognition, mathematical expressions can be evaluated and functions can be plotted immediately on the board. Since the first release in early 2002, we have gained practical experiences with different use cases and scenarios which we present in this paper.