Objective
TALENT is an RTD project concerned with the effective application of distributed multimedia training used in conjunction with networked tutoring.
The mission of the TALENT consortium is to enable the European training industry to exploit the potential synergy of multimedia technology and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) and hence respond to the current trends in the global market for training. By demonstrating systems which deliver multimedia training materials supported by network tutoring, the TALENT project will enable its training industry partners to compete in both the European and global markets.
Motivation
There are predictions of huge growth in the market for Multimedia in Training and education. However multimedia is not a panacea, its limits lie in the cost of production and in the fact that it is static and pre-defined. No matter how well designed a piece of multimedia courseware may be, there will always be times when the needs of the learner would be better addressed by contact with a human tutor. The combination of CMC technology and multimedia technology promises to support such contact.
Essentially this project aims to move multimedia production in the context of training from a "Hollywood model" to a "news room model" and to achieve technological and methodological readiness for the impact of multimedia and CMC on the technology training industry.
Objectives
Through the TALENT project the consortium are envisaging a training centre of the future. Such a centre would not exist as a building to which trainees must travel in order to attend class but as a site on a world wide network from which the learner will obtain multimedia materials and through which the learner may rendezvous with a tutor and with other learners, without any of them leaving their desks.
Results
The TALENT project will have major results on a number of levels, including the investigation, development and evaluation of:
a) systems for the delivery of multimedia training materials;
b) methods and software tools for the conversion of conventional course material to multimedia;
c) new training methods appropriate to the new technological environment;
d) a networked software environment to support the learner and the tutor in their production and use of multimedia courseware;
e) new multimedia courseware, providing opportunities to showcase and evaluate the developments in other areas;
f) a networked software environment which supports a multi-enterprise "Training Supply Chain".
The project will have deliverables on several different levels. That is why a European research consortium is an appropriate vehicle through which to approach this work.
Work plan
The work plan consists of four phases: Initial Investigation, Conversion to Multimedia, Multimedia with Network Tutoring and Technology to support the Supply Chain.
The project builds towards a major demonstrator system in phase 4. Two intermediate demonstrators are to be created in phases 2 and 3. Theses are primarily the responsibility of the training industry partners. In each of phases 1 to 3 the software to support the next phase will be developed, this is primarily the responsibility of the ISC. At the end of each phase there is a work package which brings all partners together for technology transfer, evaluation and exploitation planning.
The software developed in phase 1 will provide a set of tools for the conversion of conventional training materials to multimedia form. The phase 2 demonstrator will illustrate the application of this software. The software developed in phase 2 (and demonstrated in phase 3) will provide support for networked tutoring. The software developed in phase 3 will provide facilities such as tutor brokering. It will support the final demonstrator which will illustrate how a supply chain of independent enterprises may co-operate in order to develop and deliver training materials to the learner in a networked tutoring environment.
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