Project NESTOR: New Approaches to Cooperative Multimedia Authoring/Learning

The paper reports about Nestor, a prototype of an integrated authoring/learning environment built on locally and remotely distributed multimedia workstations. The four main parts of Nestor are: an object-oriented kernel and hypermedia base system, distributed multimedia support, distributed cooperation support, and generic customizable authoring/learning support. The motivation, background, and organization of project Nestor are described as well as the overall architecture and the four main parts are described. At present, major parts of the Nestor prototype are functional, selected tools and features have led to either software products or public domain software; missing parts are expected in '92. Full integration of all parts, ‘serious’ courseware development, and evaluation and use are approached in parallel, partly in cooperation with external partners.

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