Interactive Multimedia t-Learning Environments: Potential of DVB-T for Learning

Through the past decades, television has been maintaining its predominant broadcasting, centralised transmission and programme production applications, whilst its role in education and training has been lagging behind. Other media have been much more successful in following the modern trends in education and training, helping them evolve and improve. Involvement of the media requires an enriched interaction between the participants, based on active cooperation of all the entities, including those involved in the production processes. At interactive t-learning in DVB-T environment, the learning material cannot be accessed on demand and the adaptation of content can be accomplished within a limited scope and in a specific way only. Potentials and drawbacks of the DVB-T environment for multimedia-enriched learning are outlined, focusing on the delivery of a personalised multimedia-content to an environment with a limited capacity and availability of the Return Channel.