Education/Courseware Support and Interoperation Affinity Group
Current Members:
Rashmi Ramagiri
Poonam Agarwal
Gustav Verhulsdonck
Group home page
This group is charged with providing support for instructors to operate
courses. Their primary goals are to develop CVE interoperation with
MOODLE (Ramagiri) and to develop
CVE-internal course navigation aids (Agarwal, Verhulsdonck). A secondary
mission is to provide mutual assistance and support to each other.
Ideas about maps and tours (from a CS 579 guest lecture):
- Integrate Notepad, Electronic Blackboard, Calendar/Schedule in the main
map interface
- Use size distinctions between nodes (Large = Important, Small = not so
important), and perhaps use animated gifs or color coded nodes
- Nodes are involved in the text (I am not sure what this is, but I wrote it
down).
- History of tour node (when a node gets updatedm, say, on the collaborative
line, the old node has a link to the new node)
- Multiple collaborative lines (instead of just one)
- Add a lounge line to chat & interact with other avatars. So you can
click on the lounge line and get transported to the lounge, while the map is
in the background.
- Whether we should have a central point as FTP, or whether we should use
context based FTP (i.e. Right mouse click on the video screen to ftp
there), or both
- Separate rooms for learning concepts (you literally get to walk through
the map with a 2d presentation perhaps in the right uppercorner?)