Curriculum Resources in Interactive Multimedia (CRIM)

互动多媒体（CRIM）的课程资源将会发展，以协助解决在互动多媒体应用、教育、介面、制作、编程、出版、系统、技术和工具等领域训练有素的工作者长期短缺的问题。课程指南和课件将通过一个可通过WWW访问的数字图书馆提供，并链接到全国各地开发的资源，这些资源将成为CRIM联盟的一部分。在ACM（特别是SIG多媒体）、IEEE CS（特别是多媒体技术委员会）和AACE（特别是通过ED-MEDIA）的支持下，将出版CRIM课程指南，以促进新的多媒体专业、课程和培训计划的传播，以及小型“知识模块”（将适合现有课程，例如图形学、人机交互、操作系统、网络）。该项目还将为编写高技术领域的课程资源提供一种新的方法。首先，它将借鉴弗吉尼亚理工大学（VT）和乔治华盛顿大学（GW）之前开发的课程和课件，这些课程和课件将作为未来工作的稻草人。其次，它将通过卫星和网络视频会议将面对面的决策支持室研讨会与其他感兴趣的各方联系起来，因此第一轮（学期长）的协作工作可以沿着商定的课程发展方向进行。第三，在这一轮中，不仅VT和GW材料将被重新加工，而且对其他联盟成员的小额旅行奖励也将导致更广泛的知识模块的准备，这些知识模块可以很容易地传播和再利用。工作将由项目协调小组监督，以确保按照项目指导方针取得进展。服务器日志将提供关于采用和使用的定量数据，这些数据将通过调查和焦点小组补充定性评估。第四，在下一个学期，完成的模块将在开发地点以外的地方进行试验，并仔细评估，同时建立其他新模块。最后，通过CRIM联盟及其专业协会的支持，将课程资源开发、部署和评估的三步流程制度化，以便在多媒体会议上定期讨论、小组讨论和研讨会，进一步改进CRIM材料。

Curriculum resources in interactive multimedia (CRIM) will be developed to help meet the chronic shortage for trained workers in the areas of interactive multimedia applications, education, interfaces, production, programming, publishing, systems, technologies, and tools. Curriculum guidelines and courseware will be made available through a digital library accessible through the WWW, linking back to resources developed at sites around the nation that will be a part of the CRIM Consortium. With support by ACM (especially SIG Multimedia), IEEE CS (especially its TC on Multimedia), and AACE (especially through ED-MEDIA), CRIM curriculum guidelines will be published to facilitate the spread of new multimedia specializations, courses, and training programs, as well as small "knowledge modules" (that will fit into existing courses, e.g., graphics, HCI, operating systems, networking). This project also will contribute a new methodology for preparing curricular resources in high technology fields. First, it will draw upon prior curriculum and courseware developed at Virginia Tech (VT) and The George Washington University (GW) that will serve as a strawman for future work. Second, it will couple an in-person decision support room workshop with other interested parties connected through satellite and networked videoconferencing, so a first (semester long) round of collaborative work can proceed along the lines of agreed upon curriculum development directions. Third, during that round, not only will VT and GW materials be re-worked, but small travel awards to other consortium members also will lead to broader preparation of knowledge modules that can be easily disseminated and re-used. Efforts will be monitored by the project coordination team, to ensure progress in accord with project guidelines. Server logs will provide quantitative data on adoption and use that will supplement qualitative evaluation through surveys and focus groups. Fourth, during the next academic term (semester), completed modules will be tried at sites other than where development took place, and carefully evaluated, at the same time as other new modules are built. Finally, this three-step pipeline of curriculum resource development, deployment, and evaluation will be institutionalized through the CRIM Consortium and its support by professional societies, so that periodic discussions, panels and workshops at multimedia conferences can further improve CRIM materials.