Designing a Resource-Reusable T-Learning System

Abstract

E-Learning standard (SCORM) has been extensively devel- oped in recent years. It provides the direction of extending distance edu- cation to other mediums. Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) is a promis- ing interactive digital TV standard. In order to extend the re-use of the resource database in SCORM, this paper devises a new platform, which allows the use of SCORM resource to provide educational services on the MHP platform, i.e., T-Learning. Explicitly, we develop a SCORM compati- ble T-Learning system architecture named Resource-Reuseable T-Learning (RTL), which is capable of reusing the SCORM resource package. More- over, to enhance the efficiency of parsing the T-Learning documents, we also propose a two-phase parsing algorithm, denoted by TPP. Our system architecture and the parsing algorithm makes the DVB platform flexible, extensible, and easy to be integrated with the existing E-Learning SCORM materials. We demonstrate the prototype of RTL architecture in this paper and show the efficiency of the TPP algorithm via our experimental results.