iPlayer: Development of the Interactive Streaming Player for e-Learning (<Special Issue>Studies on Practical Use of e-Learning)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is the development and evaluation of the iPlayer, an interactive streaming video player for use in e-learning. iPlayer is an interactive system. Differing from the conventional streaming player, iPlayer enables the learner to not only give feedback on a lecture but also see the responses given by the other learners who viewed the lecture. As the result of the evaluation of iPlayer, it was confirmed that iPlayer makes the learner feel the other learners' existence and the satisfaction rating to e-learning improved. And, it is suggested that the use of iPlayer can give good effects to the collaborative learning in e-learning. By developing this study, we expect that there can be the possibility of a new field of study that the studies of lecture video distribution that had been treated independently in the past tied to the CSCL studies.