5th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
The Distributed and Interactive Courseware Environment (DICE)
Chenju, Korea
August 28-August 30
ISBN: 0-8186-7125-4
L. Chen, University of California, Irvine
T. Suda, University of California, Irvine
J. Bae Kim, California State University, Northridge, CA
S. Myers, Hughes Information Technologies Corporation
An architecture for delivering interactive multimedia courseware to schools, known as the Distributed and Interactive Courseware Environment (DICE), is being developed on a testbed consisting of (1) a network-resident architecture supported by a high-speed ATM WAN, (2) a classroom-resident architecture consisting of PC LANs in participating school classrooms, and (3) a satellite communications infrastructure serving as a communications link between the network- and classroom-resident architectures. The network-resident architecture stores and distributes courseware to the receiving classroom-resident architecture via satellite, which has the capability to support widespread, low-cost distribution to dispersively located schools. This paper provides an overview of the DICE system and then focuses primarily on the design of the network-resident architecture.
Index Terms:
ATM WAN, satellite communications, courseware, distance learning
Citation:
B. J. Vickers, L. Chen, T. Suda, J. Bae Kim, S. Myers, E. Lesnansky, "The Distributed and Interactive Courseware Environment (DICE)," ftdcs, pp.0076, 5th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, 1995
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