An Environment for Processing Compound Media Streams - Work in progress paper V 2.0

Today’s standards of internet-connected computers provide easy, intuitive access to multimedia information documents within classrooms as well as students homes and thereby confront students as well as teachers with a new paradigm of knowledge transfer: Not only the offer of an unfiltered totality of the present (rapidly changing) knowledge requests for continuous (network) access, but also a formerly unknown multitude of presentation methods to the lecture hall or in the framework of teleteaching to students homes has come around. Nothing since the invention of blackboard and chalk, we are tempted to claim, has revolutionized teaching in a more fundamental way than networked multimedia.