Multimedia, educational sothware, distributed or remote learning, knowledge management...These are the buzzwords that came up (again ?) lately and seem to melt into one solid base for the new
‘knowledge age’ (as opposed to the ‘information age’ which used to happen last century). However if one takes a minute to look around and analyze what is out there one will find a very sparsely occupied field. Now is that because we are just lurking across the edge of a yet undiscovered land or is it because we are already gone over it and only few seeds actually grew up? Let’s take a (certainly not complete) look at the multimedial distance learning systems that have been or still are in existence and then draw a conclusion what might be needed.
By: Arnd Steinmetz
Published in: RC22008 in 2001
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