Remote Collaboration Tool
University of California
Davis
Copyright 2003 Richard F. Walters. Permission granted for non commercial use if this copyright included. To
disseminate or republish requires written permission from the author.
An Open Source, Platform Independent
Multimedia, Multilingual Tool
Designed to Enhance Human Interaction
Pedagogic Assuimptions
• Learning should be student-centered
• Learning should be activity driven
• Learning requires human feedback
Open RCT Version 1.5.0
Basic Concepts
• Client-server architecture
• Platform independent
• Multimedia (text, sound, URL, textpad)
• Multilingual (UNICODE compliant
• Synchronous/asynchronous
Features
• Multilingual chat• Teams: seamless link between synchronous and asynchronous
interaction• Store-and-forward sound• Collaborative writing tool: Textpad• Threaded discussion• URL Invoked on all on-line screens• File transfer• Full archiving of all interactions
RCT Administration
Open RCT 1.5.0 provides extensive archiving of all interaction between users, synchronous as well as asynchronous (for team interaction).
Examples of the Administrative interaction are provided in the next set of illustrations.
New RCT (Fall, 2003)
Based on Macromedia Flash Communication Server
Currently under development
Prototype examples follow (Courtesy Thomas Amsler)
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