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[school-discuss] Re: [IIEP] Session 2 - OSS Solutions for E-learning

Tony Bailetti wrote:


*Observation 2*
Open source software that delivers web conferencing (real time services)
like those delivered by proprietary systems such as Centra Interwise and
Macromedia Breeze do not exist. Real time services allow students to use
VoIP, whiteboards, and shared desktops to create richly interactive
sessions such as real-time Web meetings, online sessions, and workshops.

You might want to look at the Collaborative Virtual Workspace
<http://cvw.sourceforge.net/>

From the writeup (<http://cvw.sourceforge.net/cvw/info/CVWOverview.php3> )
The Collaborative Virtual Workspace (CVW) is a prototype collaborative
computing environment, designed to support temporally and geographically
dispersed work teams. From a user's point of view, CVW provides a
persistent virtual space within which applications, documents and people
are directly accessible in rooms, floors and buildings. From a technical
point of view, it is a framework for integrating diverse collaborative
capabilities.

To a user, a CVW is a building that is divided into floors and rooms,
where each room provides a context for communication and document
sharing. CVW allows people to gather in rooms to talk through chat or
audio/video conferencing and to share text and URLs with one another
with their chat.


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Dr. Robert G. Rittenhouse, Chair
Department of Computer Science
McMurry University, Abilene, TX 79697-0968