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Title:
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WEB-MULTICAST CHAT SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING |
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Author(s):
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M.a. Ngadi , B.s. Doherty |
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ISBN:
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972-98947-0-1 |
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Editors:
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António Palma dos Reis and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2003 |
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Edition:
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1 |
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Keywords:
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Multicast, World Wide Web, Web browser, multi-users, CSCW, collaborative learning. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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274 |
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Last Page:
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280 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Due to the increasing numbers of student in the universities and the limited tools to support the lectures, the individual student is receiving less guidance, which results in either a longer study time or a lower quality of their education. In this paper, we are concerned with the use of Information Technology especially the use of World Wide Web (WWW) in education to improve the learning efficiency. We present the use of a Web-multicast chat system as a prototype to improve the learning process for a large number of students. Web-multicast is a concept that uses a standard Web-browser to communicate between multiple users. The web-browser uses the multicasting method, and no Web server is needed for the communication. The system has the advantages of availability, portability, familiarity, scalability, and performance. This paper describes the extended
three-tier architecture, the system implementation and performance results. |
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