Main features

Attractive for any flexible educational model, including distance education
Ideal for a material in active development
Can be approached from any computer attached to the Intervet via a number of different browsers
Features static text and images as well as animations for illustration of dynamic scenes
Can make use of full color illustrations throughout a material
Allows for arbitrary repetions and side tracks, because the concern about the volume of a material is a primary issue
Uses open W3C standards such as HTML, XML, and SVG instead of proprietary formats
Should provide for a traditional paper edition of the material as well

The material is presented using several different overlapping views
Provides text, images, sound, as well as animations
The material can be presented using several pre-existing graphical styles
The slide view can be used for presentation in an auditorium
The annotated slide view gives additional textual details
The audio tracks complement the textual explanations
The thematic views mimics a traditional text book exposition of the material
The trails provides for various selections of the material without copying any material
The lectures can be presented as automatically progressing slide shows with audio tracks
Computer programs can be included directly from the source, without any manual copying involved
Elements of the material can be repeated without making actual copies of it
The material is structured linearly in lectures of themes of pages
Side track lectures provides for branching of the material
The programmatic approach to authoring is ideal as a battle against document complexity
Allows for several editions of the material through programmatic variations
Is formally defined by an XML document type definition
Is authored in an programmic format which is tightly connected to XML
Is presented conservatively as standard HTML page using CSS, with additional use of real audio and SVG animations

Genereret: 12. December 2002, 16:23:18