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The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan.
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo Japan.
A Cloud-based Automated Authoring System
to support e-Learning in Higher Education
Under Low-Speed Internet
Osamnia Mohamed
Outlines :
Introduction.
Research Goal
Some Existing Systems
Objective
Flash based e-Meeting system / WebELS Learning
System design and methods
System Diagram and Operation
Resource and Metadata files
Conclusion
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• Rapid eLearning is an ongoing trend which enables:
• Flexibility and cost-effective in creating learning materials.
• Save time and reduce the cost
• WebELS system is web based E-Learning system
• support higher education in engineering and science
technology.
• Cross-platform systems
• Opensource application
• Weakness and problem
• High speed required
• Fully automated.
• Information access to the learning contents created.
Introduction
Research Goals
To support flexibility and globalization of PhD education in
science and technology especially in developed countries like
in Africa where there technology is very limited.
Offer an easy-to-use Cloud-based authoring system for
institution and universities to facilitate the creation of learning
contents under low-speed internet environments.
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Existing systems :
• Cisco Webex ---- Commericial platform
• Adobe connect ---- Commercial to use all the features of the
platform
• OpenMeeting --- record the screen activities what required high
speed internet and lack of information privacy.
• BigBlueButton ---- Open source on-line conferencing system
that developed the record/playback function in the latest release
BBB 0.8 using audio and slides synchronization.
• T-Cube (A Multimedia Authoring System for eLearning) :
Doesn’t support end users. Osamnia Mohamed
Why Higher Education ?
E-Learning now offer new more flexible learning methods for the
new Higher Education Environment in the digital age.
According to some research that characterized Higher Education, it
is based on :
Self-learning
Conference presentations
Group meetings
Teacher-student discussion
Research presentation
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Objective :
Automated authoring system should be able and not limited to:
• Create Learning contents from meeting by real time recording.
• Record the video meeting from the on-line presentation.
• Synchronize the video from web camera with the slides
presentation.
• Create Learning contents for off-line reviewing automatically.
• Export the learning contents to the Learning Module or other
Learning platforms (SCORM) Osamnia Mohamed
Flash based e-Meeting system
-WebELS Meeting is designed for online meeting conference
system via Internet-based technologies.
-support the higher education for online learning activities, include
several functionality such as content-authoring, online presentation,
video conference and so on.
-It is Conference system don`t required high-speed Internet and a
specific operating system.
- To generate learning contents automatically based on e-Meeting
presentations, the automated authoring system was proposed.
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WebELS Learning system
-General e-Learning platform to support flexibility and globalization
of higher education.
-WebELS learning offers various tools for teachers that help to
deliver and archive learning materials on the web.
Mains features :
-Web-based usage (any browsers and no need for special programs).
-Anytime , Anywhere, Anybody
-Support slides synchronization with video, audio and cursor
movement.
-Simple and friendly User Interface to break-down the need for IT
skills.
-Cross-platform solution.
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MAP the two modules of the WebELS platform:
Learning (Create
Learning contents
off-line)
Meeting (Real-Time
Presentation)
WebELS Platform
-Record Presenter Video
-Synchronize the video
with the slides presentation
and annotation actions, etc
Learning
Content Export
Imp
ort
Automated Authoring
Proposed System
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System Design and Methods:
• Detect presenter video and record it.
• Save the presenter video as .flv in each virtual room.
• While recording, the system will divide the streaming data into a
small parts that synchronize to the current presentation slides by
slides control (Next, Previous).
• Record the cursor movement (x, y) as well as the annotation data
including all setting data (Zoom, Color, Cursor, etc.)
• Automatic synchronization (Background process).
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System Diagram :
Capture /Archive / Process / Export/ Import/ Edit * / Save
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Automated Authoring System Diagram
System Components :
A- Recording function : based on the current flash-based meeting
system UI, the client send a control signals such as start, pause, stop
recording to the server for background process.
B- Playback function: a viewer user interface that can interact with
the server for streaming the data resources such as : video,
presentation slides, annotation, etc.
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Support Low-Speed Internet
Slide-based
Audio-video quality
Slides-based
Low quality Document image,
<100Kbps
Medium quality Document
image, 100Kbps<X<1Mbps
High quality Vector Graphics,
>=1Mbps
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For audio/video streaming recording, it can be adjusted
according to the presenter bandwidth environment
automatically :
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Flow of Operation :
Video Meeting
started
Click “Start record”
While Meeting is ON, background processing :
Save Resources data files:
1- Presenter video
2-Slides presentation (img, video)
Create Control Metadata files :
1-content_description.xml per recording
2- meta-description.xml per recording
3-annotation_metadata.xml per slide
4-cursor_xy_data.dat per event change
Click “Stop record”
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Generate 4 important files :
- Metadata-descrption.xml : contain the content description such
us title, passowrd, abstract, etc..
- content_description.xm : hold slides data information such as:
slide number, title, type, etc.
- annotation_data.xml : contains information of the whiteboard
such as cursor, pen size, text annotation, etc.
- Cursor_xy_data.dat : Contains the x and y position of the mouse
during the on-line presentation.
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Resource data synchronization:
For each slide a resource data attached to it such as video, image,
annotation and slide control.
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e-Meeting interface used for start recording
(1): audio/video stream data, (2): record button, and (3): the
slide index information. Osamnia Mohamed
Learning mode interface for playback
(1): Video panel for displaying the video clips recorded of the current slide,
(2): Slide panel for displaying the current slide, (3): Content Information
panel for the slides details (number, title, and description), (4): Control panel
for managing the online learning content.
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Evaluation of the system :
To compare the proposed system with common requirements and
features of otherr systems, a catalogue of important criteria for
automated systems can be used.
These criteria does not claim to be complete ad suitable for all
kinds of evaluation, but reveals the most important aspects
(Ziewer 2006)
Table 1 present how the proposed system respond to these
criteria in comparing with another common system (Journal of
E-Learning 2007 - Stolzenberg)
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Criterion Sub-criteria AAS (WebELS)
C01 Verbal Narration YES
C02 Live Video YES
C03 Presentation Content Format of presentation Documents Doc, Pdf, Video, PPT, etc
C04 Annotations a) Type of Annotations Text, Freehand, rect, etc
b) Dynamic capture and reply of annotations YES (Planned)
c) Student Note-taking YES
C05 Metadata
YES
C06 Post-processing a) Video Editing YES
b) Content Editing YES
C)Creation of Distributed Media YES
C07 Navigation a) Structured Electronic Lectures YES
b) Random Access YES
c)Visible Scrolling YES
C08 Information Retrieval a) Searchable Content NO
b) Range of search-ability NO
C09 Format of produced Electronic Lectures
a) Lossless Reproduction YES
b) Scalability YES
c) Stream-ability YES
d) Format SWF (Flash format)
e) File size and bandwidth Several options
C10 Platform independency YES (Cross-platform)
C11 Synchronous Electronic Lectures
YES
StolZenberg (2007)
YES
YES
Common formats
Text, Freehand, rect, etc
YES
NO
indirect
YES
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
Planned
Planned
NO
NO
YES
QuickTime
Several options
NO (MAC OS only)
planned
This system targets lecturers and students in the higher education, for the
flexibility and globalization of post-graduate studies. The system generates learning
contents automatically based on a real-time presentation, synchronizing the lecturer video
stream and the slides presentation by means of video clip timing. It composes of two main
functions, recording function and playback function. When the recording function is
trigged during the on-line presentation, at the back-end the automated system start
processing to record the presentation and create the learning content. The playback
function is used to review the content stored at the server side by learners, who could not
attend the real-time presentation or for further understanding of the lecture. Both recording
and playback function were designed for non-IT users by simple to use interface and to be
stable under low-speed internet. Furthermore, the automated authoring system was
implemented on the cloud-computing environment to ensure reliability and scalability of
the system.
Conclusion:
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