Copyright law and multimedia- or Internet-based educational applications

Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet

Internet Safe Harbors and the Transformation of Copyright Law

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The Mpeg-4 Standard for Internet-based Multimedia Applications

With the development of the MPEG-4 standard in 1998, a new way of creating and interacting with audio-visual media was conceived. This chapter provides an overview of this new standard. Topics covered in the chapter include a description of visual and audio objects, both natural and computer generated, and a description of how scenes are put together in MPEG-4. We also present an overview of th...

On User Interfaces for Educational Multimedia Applications

This paper addresses two questions related to educational multimedia applications: • What lessons should we learn from today's Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)?, and • What the user interfaces should look like in the future? We address the first question by drawing on our experience from two multimedia projects, that deal with multimedia proceedings and multimedia lectures. For the second quest...

Exploring Effects and Learner Attitudes of Gadget-Based Internet Multimedia Reading

This mixed-methods study aimed at investigating the effects of a gadget-based Internet multimedia extensive reading program on promoting language proficiency. In so doing, a pretest-posttest design was applied in the quantitative phase to comparatively analyze outcomes of three classes of college-level EFL learners (two experimental groups and one control, each including 30 university students)...