Offering video and other rich media content over the Internet is an emerging growth area and represents a new model and opportunity for education. As broadband access increases and advances are made in network caching, streaming servers, video and audio compression, and multimedia databases, delivering streaming video claims unprecedented potential for education. Universities and corporations will continue to look to technology to deliver distance education and web based courses. Determining the pedagogical applications of streaming video is an important area of research. Identifying the strengths and weaknesses from an educational point of view provides an important context to the practical matters of technical implementation. This research intends to investigate both the pedagogical implications and the technical implementation of streaming video.
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