Feasibility Study for an Education Enhancement Platform using Adaptive Streaming Technologies

Abstract

Recent researches in education has verified that delivering shorter lectures helps the students to focus on the concepts thoroughly as well as effectively and they are found to be more engaging than the longer ones. While facing the challenges of having short lectures in traditional classroom settings, it is recommended that, delivering video lectures to students in short byte sized chunks is a good way to overcome the issue. This paper conducts a feasibility study of such a system, iLEAP, which is intended to serve as a software platform to deliver video lectures, laboratory experiment videos as well as discussion forum for interactive learning among peer students. Existing technology on bandwidth adaptive streaming will be used to deliver these video lectures to students’ devices through a web platform. This technology ensures that the videos are streamed even if the students access the software from constrained network conditions by adapting the video size to the available network in terms of parameters such as frame rate, resolution, colour etc. Evaluation of the technology shows that the system will indeed be able to function satisfactorily under such circumstances while enhancing the overall learning experience of the students.