MANICORAL (Multimedia and network in cooperative research and learning).

摘要

The fast development of new IT-tools and communication technologies provides new opportunities for computer mediated collaboration in geographically distributed groups. One of the fields suitable for application of these technologies is collaboration among scientists. This opportunity is especially important to many of the smaller European countries where it may be difficult to maintain competent scientific research within highly speciallized fields. The new tele-communication technollgies provide scientists in smaller countries with opportunities to maintain close collaboration with collegues in foreign countries in sptie of dispersion in time and geographcial location, and combined with multimedia to enahnce visual representations of seientific data they open up radically new dimensions in research.