Imageview: A High-Level Authoring Tool for Repurposing Multimedia Content

Abstract

The teaching of medicine lends itself to the use of a rich mixture of sounds, text, graphics, images, and animated sequences to illustrate concepts. Often, these multimedia teaching materials ar available only in limited contexts, such as during a specific lecture or within a particular software program. As a result, students have little opportunity to review non-textual information, and courseware authors must obtain their own images and other content that may in turn be encapsulated within a software program. In response to these and other limitations of traditional content management, we have developed an infrastructure and tools supportive of making image-based content available both for student review and for courseware authors to use as a repurposeable resource.