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@inproceedings{782314, author = {Brandejsová, Jitka and Brandejs, Michal and Novotný, Gustav}, address = {Rožnov pod Radhoštěm}, booktitle = {Information and Communication Technology in Education Proceedings}, keywords = {E-learning; Masaryk University; multimedia; technical support; Elportal; Service Center for E Learning; s-technician}, language = {eng}, location = {Rožnov pod Radhoštěm}, isbn = {978-80-7368-577-5}, pages = {145-148}, publisher = {University of Ostrava}, title = {Use of Multimedia in Masaryk University Information System}, year = {2008} }
TY - JOUR ID - 782314 AU - Brandejsová, Jitka - Brandejs, Michal - Novotný, Gustav PY - 2008 TI - Use of Multimedia in Masaryk University Information System PB - University of Ostrava CY - Rožnov pod Radhoštěm SN - 9788073685775 KW - E-learning KW - Masaryk University KW - multimedia KW - technical support KW - Elportal KW - Service Center for E Learning KW - s-technician N2 - Multimedia contents have recently been becoming increasingly popular. That is, multimedia have infiltrated a lot of areas of human activity including education, where they, if deployed effectively, dramatically boost the efficiency of teaching process. Since teachers come to realize their importance and tend to use them in their courses much more often than ever before, Masaryk University has begun to provide its lecturers with technical support capable of assisting them in integrating multimedia contents in these. Although the e-learning tools currently operating under IS MU are Web-based and thus enable their users to integrate a wide range of elements (e.g. images, slide shows, audio, animations, Web sites, etc.) in their teaching materials, their implementation sometimes requires advanced IT knowledge, which most teachers lack. Even if a teacher happens to know how to work with the tools, they are too busy to design the contents. This very fact has led to the establishment of Service Center, whose staff attend to multimedia-related requests made by IS users. The primary task of the Center is to create visually appealing multimedia contents that are too complicated to be produced by non-professionals and, at the same time, provide technical support to large-scale courses, i.e. high budget projects participated in by teams of developers. Over the last two years of its existence, the Center has proved its worth not only in assisting the teachers technically, but also in encouraging them to continue in their e-learning activities. Some of the Center's recent products represent multimedia textbooks containing audio and video, some of them are interactive flash animations, 3D animations, and objects made to synchronize digitized audio and video material with texts. Once completed, every product becomes accessible to students via the Information System. ER -
BRANDEJSOVÁ, Jitka, Michal BRANDEJS and Gustav NOVOTNÝ. Use of Multimedia in Masaryk University Information System. In \textit{Information and Communication Technology in Education Proceedings}. Rožnov pod Radhoštěm: University of Ostrava, 2008, p.~145-148. ISBN~978-80-7368-577-5.
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