Speaker bio's

Multimedia developer

Christchurch College of Education

bruce.webster "at" cce.ac.nz

Data-driven multimedia learning objects

Re-usable, easily-maintained learning objects are in their infancy. There are systems that can generate page navigation and multi-choice questions for you, but this is not very exciting or 'immersive' for the student. On the other hand, multimedia Flash files that increase interactivity are difficult to maintain and re-purpose. The presenter has been working on overcoming this problem by developing a Flash learning-object-player which reads an XHTML data file. Bruce Webster will show some examples of his learning objects and discuss his progress.

Presentation notes

Bruce Webster has been involved with computers and the education sector for over 20 years, beginning with developing educational games in the 1980s while at high school. He gained a BSc in Computer Science and a Certificate of Adult Teaching. Working for 5 years in I.T. support in the tertiary sector, he learned a lot about Human-Computer Interaction. In his role of Multimedia Developer since 2004, Bruce has enjoyed developing solutions that simplify and enhance eTeaching, such as Interactive multimedia learning components. He believes in cross-platform Open Source, and develops in PHP, MySQL, Flash/Actionscript, Javascript, XML, HTML and CSS.