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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia educational systems
Message-ID: <1301@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 91 06:30:50 GMT
References: <19660@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <19660@csli.Stanford.EDU> wu@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alice Wu) writes:
>
>In particular, I'm interested in how people designing these systems think 
>about the technological possibilities and their relationship to educational 
>processes.  For example, some issues I'd be interested in include:
>
>	o user-initiative versus planned sequences
>	o sequential versus random exploration of materials

Can't tell much experience for the other points, but here I want to
clearly ask to make it as flexible as possible. Allow for every
imaginable way to explore the material. This is equally one of the
philosophies in the Amiga system: Don't force the user into one way
of doing things, but let him choose between all the appropriate
methods, and Amiga tries hard to provide them all. In my eyes this
is quite an important thing and should be recommended also for such
applications.

>	o tradeoffs using video, graphical, audio, text presentations
>	  for different materials

Sorry I can't be more helpfull, but you should take use of the existing
possibilities. So if you want to teach about a historical speech where
sound recordings exist, why not including at least the key phrases as
digitized sound?

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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