Links related to education

•   NSCU Web Lecture System
     The Web Lecture System (WLS) is an integrated system of tools and mechanisms explicitly designed for support of proven network-based education (NBE) paradigms and workflows. It incorporates tools for construction, editing, capture, delivery and management of Web-based or Web-assisted classes, lessons and presentations. It recognizes different NBE user categories such as Students, Instructors, Authors, or System Managers, and provides support for their functions and needs.
  
  
•   NetVista
     NetVista was developed by IBM's Watson Research Lab specifically to help K-12 schools use Internet resources effectively. NetVista is an innovative solution that can enhance learning and productivity through state-of-the-art software. Installation services and teacher training are also available.
  
  
•   Interactive Remote Instruction (IRI)
     The IRI system melds high speed networking, television, and computer technologies to allow for distance learning over the Internet. This is achieved by creating a virtual classroom, where students participate in the same learning experience, independent of where they are physically located.
  
  
•   NovaNET
     NovaNET is a comprehensive computer-based education and communications network that offers thousands of hours of self-paced, interactive curriculum for secondary and adult learners.
  
  
•   School Net
     Hong Kong School Net was an experimental education network initiated by the Department of Information Engineering back in 1994. Formerly known as Hong Kong Education Information Network (HKEIN) which connected only 8 pil ot schools, School Net now provides a low-cost, education-oriented, internet service to secondary school students in Hong Kong. Hong Kong School Net is non-profit-making and non-commercial, and has been supported by volunteers especially students and teac hers.
  
  
•   Intellect
     INTELLECT is a research prototype at the Broadband Communications Lab in the Dept. of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Its goal is to explore the use of advanced multimedia and networking technologies to improve the teaching and learning process. The project focuses on the delivery and remote presentation of pre-designed and stored multimedia course materials. Continuous media, such as video and audio, are stream-delivered (presented and delivered at the same time) to reduce presentation startup time. Multiple media are presented at the client site in a tightly synchronized manner. INTELLECT is a useful tool for TeleEducation, TeleTraining, TeleAdvertizing, and TeleEntertainment.

Links related to multimedia

•   Real Media
     RealMedia is an open, cross platform, client-server system for streaming media on the Internet. It does not require datatypes to live in any special format and is designed for Internet developers who want to stream media types in realtime over the Internet.
  
  
•   MPEG
     The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination.
  
  
•   Quicktime
     QuickTime is the Apple technology that makes video, sound, music, 3D and virtual reality come alive for Macintosh and Windows.
  
  
•   Advanced Streaming Format (ASF)
     Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) is the open standard file format in which multimedia content will be stored, streamed, and presented by the tools, servers, and clients of the multimedia vendors. ASF provides benefits such as local and network playback, extensible media types, component download, scalable media types, prioritization of streams, multiple language support, environment independence, rich inter-stream relationships, and expandability.
  
  
• A Good Lesson about Video Conferencing/Multimedia.