Publications - Resources

The Multimedia Courseware on the WWW project identifies resources for trainers and training organisations that wish to put multimedia in their courses on the WWW.

Copyright

• Copyright and Digital Media in Education
  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/copyright/prospects.html
  Informative educational site includes link to US Copyright Office report.
  
  
• Copyright Online
  http://acn.net.au/resources/ip/online.htm
  A down to earth guide & introduction to some of the issues.
  
  
• Digital Copyright Issues
  http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/dlisu/DEdci.htm
  Resources on copyright issues.
  
  
• Digital Future Coalition
  http://www.dfc.org//index.html
  U.S. organisation establised to tackle intellectual property issues (includes distance learning)
  
  
• Distance Learning & Copyright
  http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/disted/distance_education_and_copyright.htm
  Short historical essay on some of the relevant issues for distance educators.

Disability Access

• CSUN 2000
  http://www.csun.edu/cod/
  This conference focuses on "technology and persons with disabilities".
  
  
• The Web Isn't for Everyone ...Yet (Margolin)
  http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/site_building/tutorials/tutorial5.html
  Tutorial on web accessibility.

Social Learning in Multimedia (SLIM)

http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/research/slim.html
The final report of this major EC supported project is now available on-line.

SLIM investigated the process of innovation in multimedia : the convergence of information, communication and broadcasting technologies,highlighting the role of social learning, the widely dispersed interactions between producers, intermediate and final users and policy-makers which are critical to the future evolution and success of multimedia.

http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~webdev/jharun/media/index.html
This site contains a mini tutorial on four types of multimedia: graphics, animations, video and audio. In addition there is resource material, links to other multimedia sites and 'how to do it' information and advice.

Technical

http://collaborate.shef.ac.uk/egrp.htm
This site contains very useful descriptions and case studies of the use of  the most common software products for preparing and delivering web based courses. In addition, there are links to vendors and other comparative material about the software products.

http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/
IBM's global learning training site contains lists of courses for learning how to create multimedia.

http://www.ccon.org/hotlinks/vedu.html#top
This site contains information about Virtual Universities and particularly examples of virtual worlds being used on educational courses.

http://www.jtap.ac.uk/reports/htm/jtap-037.html
At this site is a report on Practical Guidelines for Teaching with Videoconferencing