Work in Progress: Learner-Centered Online Learning Facility

This paper describes a novel, learner-centered technology for authoring web lectures. Besides seamless integration of video and audio feeds, Microsoft PowerPoint slides, and web-pages, the proposed Online Learning Facility (OLF) also facilitates online interactive testing and review of covered materials, online provision of feedback, real-time navigable lesson structure, e-mail, threaded discussion and a chat room. To assess the effectiveness of interactive learning in OLF environment, we conducted a small research study using OLF-based web lectures in the context of a tutorial on Multi Agent Systems (MAS)