ACM Multimedia'99 Workshop on Multimedia Education:
Curriculum Resources in Interactive Multimedia (CRIM)

 

Due to scheduling problems, the workshop was not help on Nov. 5. Rather, there were informal discussions with those who had signed up. Please contact fox@vt.edu if you have interest in getting involved, regarding educational resources or curricula or both.

For reference, please see background information given in the talk presented at ACM Multimedia'99. You can read a PDF version (200K) of a preprint of the paper or see the slides from the presentation in either PDF (1.2M) or PowerPoint (Office 2000 version, 1.7M) forms.  

Flier

Please see flier for workshop, with latest details, in PDF or Word forms

Schedule

This 1-day workshop will be held on Nov. 5, 1999 after the main portion of the Seventh ACM International Multimedia Conference, MM'99.

 

Attendees

This workshop is designed for all stake holders in interactive multimedia education, e.g.,

  1. those who are currently teaching courses in IMM,
  2. those who are planning such courses,
  3. professionals involved in training and in hiring of professionals in IMM.

Individuals interested in attending should send, at a minimum, the following items to Rachelle Heller (sheller@seas.gwu.edu).

  1. a short description of interest in the workshop, including goals and objectives for attending;
  2. a resume or URL concerning professional background relevant to the workshop topic and activities;
  3. URL or short description of curricular or teaching materials already produced, or other evidence of work in the area of the workshop (e.g., a syllabus of a course taught).

Attendees are encouraged to explore the CRIM Web site and to work with the online collection that is part of the digital library for the Computer Science Teaching Center (CSTC).

 

Brief Description of Workshop Structure

The workshop will have both lecture and hands-on discussions. Demonstrations will be included in the presentation of the CRIM repository.

The morning will focus on the digital library of IMM resources, and the afternoon on curriculum for IMM. The workshop coordinators will present for about an hour during each of the parts, followed by about an hour of short presentations by other attendees and an hour of discussion in small groups or plenary. At the end of the day a plenary session will recap results and finalize a plan for submitting the curricular guidelines for review and publication.

 

Background and Additional Description

This 1-day workshop is designed to introduce the CRIM digital library for materials in teaching interactive multimedia (IMM) at the university level, and to reach consensus regarding proposed curriculum guidelines for the field. It extends beyond what was covered in a similar workshop (see http://info.acm.org/sigmm/MM98/work2.html) at MM'98, but also is open to those new to this topic.

In the morning, attendees will discuss CRIM and its materials:

  1. a technical description of the digital library, including how it works and the underlying (meta)data organization/construction;
  2. a review of the state of multimedia educational opportunities and techniques at the university level (i.e., teaching about IMM, not using IMM to teach other subjects);
  3. a presentation and discussion of how to use the digital library in order to support teaching of IMM, both in IMM courses as well as in parts of allied courses.

The afternoon session will broaden the discussion to consider a series of proposals for curriculum in various types of courses relating to interactive multimedia (see http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~crim/onlcour.html), e.g.:

  1. a one semester senior level elective course;
  2. a one semester graduate level introductory courses;
  3. a four course sequence for undergraduates covering design, implementation, evaluation and project aspects of multimedia development;
  4. a multimedia minor.

Once completed, the curriculum will be submitted for release by ACM and by IEEE-CS.

 

Workshop Committee