Study on multimedia application to higher education

虽然初步设想的千叶大学工程学院的教育体制改革没有得到文部科学省的批准，但取得了以下成果：(1)基于最先进的多媒体设备进行了技术设计，为进一步的多媒体教育和学习研究创造了小型的中试系统。(2)可能的呈现媒体已经应用于作为基于网络的多媒体内容的教材，无论是作为原型还是完整的多媒体内容。(3)通过允许学生群体使用多媒体系统和开发的多媒体教材相对于该系统的优越性进行了检验。也就是说，不同的两组被要求学习传统教科书中相同的内容，并开发多媒体材料。针对视听媒体是教育的重要媒体之一，将一些市面上可以买到的视频材料转换成数字视频，并利用非线性视频编辑设备对其进行碎片化重建。他们被安装在视频点播服务器上，这样学生就可以从任何终端可以连接到互联网的任何地方随时访问和学习内容。研究明确了将传统视频转换为视频点播所需的人力。(5)研究结果并未应用于预期的高等教育系统，但结果在“多媒体博览会”和通过互联网直播会议等活动中公开。

Although initially presumed restructuring of educational system in Faculty of Engineering - Chiba University, was not approved by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, following results are attained.(1)Technological design based on the most modern multimedia equipment has been done to create small sized pilot system for further research on multimedia education and learning.(2) Possible presentation media have been applied to teaching materials being network-based multimedia contents, either as prototype or complete ones.(3) Superiority of the multimedia system and developed multimedia teaching material over the system has been examined by letting groups of students use the material. Namely, separate two groups were asked to study the same contents in conventional text books and developed multimedia materials. It was found that the teaching material carefully prepared in multimedia improves motivation and achievements.(4) In the light that audio-visual media are one of the important media in education, some commercially available video materials were converted to digital videos and fragmented to reconstruct them using non-linear video editing equipment. They were installed on a video-on-demand server, so that students can access and learn the contents at any time, from any place where terminal were connectable to the Internet. Necessary man-power to convert conventional video to video-on- demand was clarified by the research.(5) Research results were not applied to an expected higher educational system, however, the results were made public in such events as "multimedia fairs" and live broadcasting of conferences over the Internet.