Management of Multimedia Contents for Distributed e-Learning System

We have developed a distributed asynchronous Web based training system. In order to improve the scalability and robustness of this system, all contents and functions are realized on mobile agents. These agents are distributed to computers, and they can use a Peer to Peer network that modified Content-Addressable Network. In the proposed system, only text data can be included in a exercise. To make our proposed system more useful, the mechanism that it not only adapts to multimedia data but also it doesn-t influence the user-s learning even if the size of exercise becomes large is necessary.

Authors:

• Kazunari Meguro
• Daisuke Yamamoto
• Shinichi Motomura
• Toshihiko Sasama
• Takao Kawamura
• Kazunori Sugahara

Keywords:

• e-Learning
• multimedia
• Mobile Agent.

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