Web based multimedia/animation

This week the article I read is linked to:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/7220/19459/00899152.pdf

The article is titled Interactive Web based animations for teaching and learning. It is written by M. Syrakow, J. Berdux, and H. Szczerbicka. The authors are professors at the Institute of Computer Design & Fault Tolerance at Karlsruhe University in Orlando. The article starts off by saying that web based studies are now a rquirement in order to remain a competitive player in the aducational market. Meaning that teachers are competing to better their type of curriculm way of teaching by using web based studies. The univeristy is giving lectures on web based learning material for students to gain knowledge about multimedia and animation. Seeing that it is being a competitive source of learning the university thought it would be to there advantage to give some pointers on how to do it. The authors focused on animations and simulations. The students in the lectures use the animations and simulations mainly for individual experiments. The lectures seem to be effective so far and have increased knowledge of the students in the lectures.

The article also gives some deadlines for building interactive web based animations. There are two general guidelines for building interactive Web based animations. The first animation visualizes the search processes of direct global and local optimization strategies. In the second animation an artificial ecosystem is stimulated autonomous agents to perform a number of different actions to survive.

Animations are executed within the web browsers and they are available anywhere around the world at any time and no installing is required.