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CO-LEARN: COoperation in LEARNing
Introduction
CO-LEARN is a project concerned with Research & Development relating to problems of communications and cooperation between participants in the education process in a distance learning context.
Purpose
The purpose of CO-LEARN is to enhance communications between teachers and learners and between learners themselves by the development of a global communications system supporting on and off line tutoring, harnessing of the Personal Computer (PC) environment to interactive communications tools.
Output
On the basis of analysis of the communication processes in education and training and of existing equipment, the project will develop 4 communication systems for distance learning:
- A real-time multimedia conference system for communication in small groups,
- An asynchronous computer mediated conference system for communications in larger groups,
- A system for real time teleteaching where teachers can communicate with groups of learners in different locations,
- A system for real-time teleassistance where a tutor can guide a small group of learners.
Means
It is intended to identify basic pedagogical units in which the emphasis will be on communication or cooperation between participants in the education process. A focus will be made to recreate the conditions of these interchanges in a remote context.
The basic pedagogical units involved will be analyzed in terms of communication flows and conditions from which technical architectures will be derived to develop prototypes. Such prototypes will be assessed and evaluated in 13 trial schemes, half involving trans-European Networks in varieties of educational, operational and geographic situations.
In achieving the objectives key issues of: networks (Integrated Services Digital Network -ISDN- in particular), standards, multimedia (high quality sound, image and text), human factor engineering (What You See is What I See -WYSIWIS- multiwindowing concept), message handling, navigation through information, storage of complex media (case structures, exercises, user directories, etc), updating and transmission, must be addressed.
People
Project management
TS/CITCOM, Dominique Ray, Nanterre, France
Tools specification and implementation
TS/CITCOM Dominique Ray, Nanterre, France; Trigone-CUEEP, Alain Derycke, Villeneuve dAscq, France
Identification and modelling of educational scenarios
Trigone-CUEEP, Alain Derycke, Villeneuve dAscq, France
Multimedia object definition
Technische Hochschule, Hans-Jurgen Hoffmann, Darmstadt, Germany (storage and retrieval); Software de Base, Gonzalo Sanchez-Duenas, Madrid, Spain (and their presentation); Graphical User Interface for educational systems specification and implementation; Software de Base, Gonzalo Sanchez-Duenas, Madrid, Spain; INESC- Universidade de Aveiro, Joaquim Martins, Aveiro, Portugal
Identification, definition and evaluation of pilot experiment, Identification and modelling of educational scenarios
Open University, Tony Kaye, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Specification and implementation of unique access to telecom resources including LANs and ISDN
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, DIT Department, Encarna Pastor, Madrid, Spain
Pilot site affiliated to Software De Base
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, GATE Department, Manuel Fernandez de Villalta, Madrid, Spain; Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia/PNITC, Carlos San Jose, Madrid, Spain; Consejerio de Educación, Comunidad de Madrid, Paloma Fernandez Goméz, Madrid, Spain
Pilot Site affiliated to TS/CITCOM
Chambre Régionale de Commerce et dIndustrie, Christophe Parmentier, Nantes, France; Ecole dArchitecture de Nantes, J.P. Peneau, Nantes, Frances;
Centre National dEnseignement à Distance, Olaf de Hemmer, Rennes, France; ENSAAT, Université de Rennes 1, J. Seguin, J. Guivarch, Rennes, France
Pilot Site affiliated to Trigone
Université de Sciences et Technologie de Lille 1, Alain Derycke, Lille, France; Neurope Lab, Denis Servant, Richard Collin, Archamps, France
Pilot Site affiliated to Open University
British Telecom / Highlands and Islands Enterprise, David Cook, United Kingdom
Pilot Site affiliated to INESC
FUNDETEC, Manuel R. Sá Torrïo (at INESC), Porto, Portugal
Deliverables
UNIFIED ERGONOMICS
MULTIMEDIA OBJECTS DEFINITION, UPDATE + RETRIEVAL
DESIGN SPECIFICATION FOR THE CPI
EVALUATION OF EXISTING TOOLS AND PLATFORMS
USER REQUIREMENTS
EVALUATION INSTRUMENTS AND PROCEDURES
B/REFERENCE MANUAL FOR COMMUNICATION SERVICES
B2/HYPERMEDIA DOCUMENT EDITOR
B/PROGRAMMERS REFERENCE MANUAL FOR MM OBJECT UPDATE & RETRIEVAL
A/UPDATE/RETRIEVE PROTOCOL FIRST VERSION
A USABILITY AUDIT
ADDENDUM TO EDUCATIONAL SITUATIONS
ADDENDUM TO STANDARDS AND NORMS USED IN THE PROJECT
ANALYSIS AND TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND USER SUPPORT ISSUES
B USER MANUAL FOR THE REAL TIME TELE-ASSISTANCE TOOL
B/USER MANUAL FOR THE ASYNCHRONOUS MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING SYSTEM
B/USER MANUAL FOR THE REAL TIME TELE-TEACHING TOOL
CPI MS-DOS SECOND VERSION
CPI SECOND VERSION: HYPERMEDIA DOC. EDITOR AND MANAGER
CPI UNIX SECOND VERSION
DEFINITION OF CO-LEARN GENERAL ARCHITECTURE
DEVELOPMENT METHODS, STANDARDS AND NORMES ( Addendum)
EVALUATION OF TOOLS AT PILOT SITES
EVALUATION OF TOOLS AT PILOT SITES
EXPERIMENTATIONS' SYNTHESIS
FINAL PROTOTYPE COMMUNICATION
FINAL PROTOTYPE OF TELE-ASSISTANCE SYSTEM ON ISDN
FINAL PROTOTYPE OF TELE-TEACHING SYSTEM ON ISDN
FIRST CPI MS-DOS VERSION
FIRST CPI UNIX VERSIONS
FIRST PROTOTYPE OF TELE-ASSISTANCE SYSTEM ON LAN
FIRST PROTOTYPE OF TELE-TEACHING SYSTEM ON LAN
FIRST PROTOTYPE OF THE REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE SYSTEM ON LAN
GENERAL SPECIFICATION THE SYNCHRONOUS COMM. TOOLS (TELE-TEACHING)
PILOT SITES AND EVALUATION CRITERIA
PRE-PILOT TESTING OF CERTAIN TOOLS
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FINAL EVALUATION WORKSHOP
PROPOSITION FOR ADDING FUNCTIONALITIES TO A GENERAL CMC SYSTEM
PROPOSITION FOR ADDING FUNCTIONALITIES TO A GENERAL CMC SYSTEM
PROTOTYPE OF REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE SYSTEM ON ISDN
PROTOTYPE OF TELE-ASSISTANCE SYSTEM
PROTOTYPE OF TELE-TEACHING SYSTEM
PROTOTYPE OF TOOLS FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING WITH A CMC SYSTEM
REPRESENTATION MODELS FOR COLLAB. EDUCAT. & COLL.LEARNING ACTIVITIES
SECOND LIST OF SOFTWARE RESOURCES
SECOND LIST OF SOFTWARE RESSOURCES
SOFTWARE AND TELEMATICS INSTALLATION AT PILOT SITES
SOFTWARE OF THE COMMON OBJECT ORIENTED TOOLBOX
SOFTWARE REPOSITORY DESIGN AND CONTENT
SPECIFICATION OF COMMON ACCESS FUNCTIONS TO COMMUNICATION RESOURCES
SPECIFICATION OF THE ASYNCHRONOUS COMPUTER MEDIATED COM. SYSTEM
SPECIFICATION OF THE COMMON OBJECT ORIENTED TOOLBOX
SPECIFICATION OF THIRD LIST OF COMPONENTS OF THE COMMON O.O. TOOLBOX
TECHNICAL PRESENTATION OF THE PROTOTYPES, USER'S MANUALS
THIRD COLLECTION OF PROTOTYPES OF THE COMMON O.O. TOOLBOX
THIRD LIST OF SOFTWARE RESOURCES
UPDATE/RETRIEVE PROTOCOL FIRST VERSIONS
UPDATE/RETRIEVAL PROTOCOL SECOND VERSION
USER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
