UOC's Media Center presentation

Josep Antoni Martínez-AceitunoPablo Lara-NavarraBegoña GrosDavid Maniega

The UOC media center: towards a cross-platform and a cross-channel e-learning system

Open Innovation Office

23rd ICDE World Conference on Open and Distance Learning. 7 – 10 June 2009 Maastricht

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E-learning... beyond the web page

Cross-platform, Cross-channel and cross-device

Silverlight technology

Media center technology

Media center: UOC’s case

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Distance educationuntil the mid-1990s

• Correspondence education

• Educational radio

• Educational television

• Satellite education

E-learningSince the mid-1990s

Internet consolidation

Web pages

• Deliver information

• Render and manage ed. services

• Interaction between students

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1995 UOC

WEB

•Deliver information(Contents)

•Render and manage services (Teaching – Management ed.)

•Interaction between students(Communication)

Virtual Campus

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For a decade (1995 – 2006) the UOC’s student:

• was geographically scattered

• had access to the Virtual Campus through a single channel: Internet

• Used a single device: computer

2007

MOBILITY

• Scattered and itinerant students

• They have access to the Virtual Campus trough different channels: Internet, television, mobile phones

• They use different devices: personal computers, laptops, television, mobiles

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Cross-platform

Cross-channel and cross-device

How?

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With no need to adapt the contents to every channel and every platform

Technologies that allows to go on to a cross-platform and cross-channel e-

learning system are:

Silverlight and Media center

Processing contents with the appropriate technology in order to:

• Standardize them

• Structure them

• Syndicate them

• Packaged them

To be able to have access to the contents:

• Trough different channels

• Without depending on the platform

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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device technology

Enables dynamic 3d interfaces to be created.

Naturally integrates video and audio on the web without the need for additional installed programmes instalados

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Web / XAML

Cross-browser

Cross-platform

Cross-device

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Silverlight RoadMap

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Media Center offers the possibility of publishing interactive content for free that can be accessed form a TV.

If this content is offered via Silverlight it becomes compatible with the rest of the platform’s channels.

Media center technology :

• Take advantage of flexible contents created with Silverlight technology to foster a real convergence of the PC and television

is included as a component of Windows Vista

It is in 90% of computers sold last year

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Convergence TV - PC

A new channel

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Characteristics:

• Text losses its prominence in favor of image (either static and dynamic).

• Audiovisual contents can be the backbone for delivering information and the “natural” device to consume it could be used: the television.

Students use a remote control to interact with the contents instead of use a mouse

Remote control

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To develop a Media Center entails changing dynamics and habits used for designing web pages

A new scenario has come out

To use a remote control for navigating entails:

• To simplify navigation (horizontal – vertical)

• To assume that not the 100% of the screen will be an interactive point

• To simplify content hierarchical organization

http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/15620/UOC%20Media%20Center/iframe.html

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