• Educational Technology International
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.107-125
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• 2009

This study seeks to prove three points through the research. The first point is to examine the changes of international attitudes with actual experiences using synchronous international distance learning. The second point is to examine the effectiveness of a synchronous international distance system. And the final point is to compare international attitudes among middle school and undergraduate school students in Korea and Japan. The study used the DVTS for audio and video communication tools and automatic translating chat as a text communication tool. This combination of communication tools was very effective for students from both countries to communicate for international collaborative learning activities. The study found several interesting patterns of attitude change from the results of the study. For whole category analysis, there are positive changes in four categories of international attitudes: consciousness to foreign countries, consideration for other's viewpoints, motivation for international education, and recognition for the counterpart country. However, there was no change in the nationality category.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.209-219
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• 2011

Most of the computer-based distance learning systems are asynchronous ones that allow students to download from the server the lecture previously given by a lecturer. While these asynchronous systems has the advantage that enable students to view the lecture with no time restriction, the study may not be effective due to the lack of support for real-time interaction between students and lecturers. Based on the student-lecturer-collaboration session model, this paper presents a collaboration session-centric synchronous distance learning system that supports real-time interaction between students and teachers, awareness information during lecture, and feedback from students. Basic feature of the proposed system include audio and video conferencing, text-based chat, and shared slide with annotation support.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.209-214
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• 1998

The advent of powerful hardware and advances in high speed networks enabled synchronous learning, with teachers and students being geographically distributed but connected via computer networks. Today's synchronous learning systems are mainly based on video conferencing technology which provides audio, video, and joint editing of documents only, but does not take into account the specific requirements of teaching, for instance, controlling the course of instruction, raising hands, or reference pointing. A shared whiteboard is often the core part of these systems. Therefore, in this paper, we look into implementation issues in whiteboards of distance learning systems. Particularly, system architectures and concurrency control mechanisms are considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.646-648
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• 2004

컴퓨터와 인터넷의 급속한 보급으로 인해 원격교육(Distance Learning)에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그러나, 지금까지 대부분의 원격교육 시스템은 웹 기반의(Web-Based) 비동기(asynchronous) 형태로써 피교육자가 이미 제작된 컨텐츠를 다운로드하여 보는 단순한 형태의 교육방식이다. 따라서, 전통적인 면대면(Face-to-Face) 교육방식을 대체할수 있는 원격교육이 되기 위해서는 교육자와 피교육자, 피교육자와 피교육자간에 인지(awareness) 및 상호작용(interaction)이 가능한 원격교육의 기능이 지원되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 비디오 및 오디오 컨퍼런싱(video and audio conferencing), 텍스트 기반 대화(text-based chat), 선 밀 텍스트 애노테이션이 가능한 슬라이드(slide with line and text annotation)를 제공하고 피교육자에 대한 인지정보(awareness information)를 공유하는 동기식 세미나용 원격교육 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.347-351
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• 2003

It is important to consider not only audio/video but presentation way, in video conferencing, seminar, lecture based network communication. The method to transmit image of a chalkboard used in traditional seminar, conference, lecture are one of difficulties for remote environment since it requires techniques high-resolution transmission and talking films. In this paper we implemented real-time multimedia shared board system for shared effective multimedia presentation using connection-oriented socket of TCP. In this system, decreasing cost of related system construction, improve of data reliableness and interaction, presentation delay time be able to minimize.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.430-438
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• 2001

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a web-based distance learning system supporting the collaborative browsing. Our system consists of an education affair management system, a video conferencing server/client, a white-board server/client, a session manager and a web browser sharing system. Among other things, our collaborative web browser is unique and not found in any other system. The web browser shows synchronously the same web pages as the lecturer moves through them. Therefore, it allows the student to feel real-time surfing gust as the lecturer would. The session manager supports multi-user and multi-group, and integrates various synchronous collaborative component into one distance learning system by providing the same session data and information of users in a session group. Our collaborative browsing system can increase the efficiency of distance learning and provides the effect of learning in the same classroom by supporting various synchronous functionalities, such as collaborative browsing.