Framework for Component-Based Multimedia Courseware Development

Abstract

Multimedia Courseware supplements significantly in interactive teaching and learning scenario. The visualization and virtual environmental stimulation through interactive multimedia courseware is a story of both successes and failures. The success and failure most of the cases relates to the acquisition of resources for developing the quality courseware, the lack of well defined methodology that could facilitate this process while ensuring a certain level of product quality. The classical problems of software engineering have been also observed in case of multimedia courseware development. Existing multimedia authoring tool does not support rule based courseware development depending on the user context. In this work, we have presented a general solution to the stated problem in a systematic and proven model for courseware development to support development and reengineering process. The proposed framework is intended to facilitate the component based process to reduce the development time and costs, as well as to improve the capability for predicting the courseware’s quality level.