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Indexing an Archive of Streaming Media Educational Components

Lonnie Harvel, Monson H. Hayes, Yu-Xi Lim, Jialin Tian, and Sankeun Lee School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Distributed Engineering Education Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 +(1) 404.894.2958 mhh3@eedsp.gatech.edu

Abstract – In this paper we present some work on indexing streaming media content that is developed for educational delivery over the Internet or by CD-ROM. First, we describe a tool that we have developed for automatically indexing a set of PowerPoint slides. This paper also describes how, once the lecture information (keywords) from these slide s is loaded into a database that contains information from all other courses, a user can perform a keyword search over that lecture, or over all lectures for the course.

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Georgia Tech, along with a number of other Universities, is witness ing an explosion in the delivery of courses to distance learning students via the Internet or, when bandwidth issues become a concern, by CD-ROM. For example, as a part of the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program (GTREP), Georgia Tech is delivering undergraduate electrical engineering courses to other campuses located in the State of Georgia. In addition, Georgia Tech is now offering on-line Masters Degree programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Mechanical Engineering. As more and more faculty become involved in distance learning, and as an increased number of students are finding themselves accessing multimedia content over the Internet, the expectations and demands from both groups will increase. For example, instructors are finding an increasing need of tools that will assist them in the creation and assembly of multimedia content, and students are beginning to expect advanced search and query capabilities, interactivity with the multimedia content, communication with the instructor and other students, advanced hyper linking to related topics, course navigation that is tailored to different learning styles, and on-line assessment. In this paper, we describe some of our recent activities in building an automatic indexing program that allows the student to search over textual content for specific words and phrases, both within a given course, and across multiple courses. Specifically, we present our work on indexing streaming media content that is developed for educational delivery ov er the Internet or by CD-ROM. First, we describe a tool that we have developed for automatically indexing a set of PowerPoint slides, or slides that have been saved and stored in postscript or PDF

“Proceedings of the 2002 Amer ican Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education ”

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Harvel, L., & Hayes, M. (2002, June), Indexing And Archiving Streaming Media Educational Components Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10605