Increasing Teaching Productivity with EuropeMMM

Abstract

EuropeMMM (Efficient Use of Remote and Online Publications of Electronic Multi-Media Materials) addresses the challenge of custom-publishing of multi-media on the Internet. A EuropeMMM catalog is designed especially for teachers and trainers who need to save time and effort in developing courses which include multi-media elements. Authors and educators can select multi-media material from such a catalog and produce their own custom instructional materials. Through the use of EuropeMMM and the World Wide Web, resource-based learning becomes widely accessible to students, while at the same time reducing the costs of production through shared intellectual capital. This paper describes how EuropeMMM allows authors and educators to select multi-media materials from a central, transnational Web site to produce their own custom material for teaching or other purposes. It also provides details on how multi-media content can be contributed to the central repository. Six figures illustrate steps in the material development process. (Author/DLS)