Learning Technology - RIPPLES and MANIC
The Research in Presentation Production for Learning Electronically (RIPPLES) project is investigating how to most effectively use the World Wide Web and CD/DVD-ROM to deliver lectures and course materials outside of the classroom. Our focus is on asynchronous learning environments in which students proceed at their own pace and are not assumed to be accessing the same material at the same time. Students can access lectures as digital audio or video, synchronized with slides, overheads or other materials.

RIPPLES delivers lectures using several related technologies, employing PERL or PHP and MySQL on the server side, a separate Real server for the digital media, a front end interface written in HTML and JavaScript, and audio/video browser plugins in standard browsers on the client side. For CD-ROM delivery RIPPLES uses a custom browser packaged with the materials on disc. RIPPLES will migrate to DVD-ROM delivery as the technology becomes more widely adopted.

We currently have several courses available on-line, all of which can be accessed freely! They range from full-credit graduate level courses in Computer Networks (over 25 hours of audio and slides) and Operating Systems to short courses on Socket programming and Art History (5-6 hours). Please take a look, and give us your feedback.
- posted by Yik Sheng @ 7:39 PM