STVALL: Hybrid TV for Interactive Language and Content Learning

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2015

The support of technological resources in teaching and learning has contributed to make them more efficient and enjoyable. Through this support has become quite common to use media resources before explored only for entertainment for educational purposes, among them the TV. The interactive Digital TV (iDTV) provides resources that make possible the development of a plethora of educational applications. However, since TV is a mass distribution device, an aggravating factor in the use of this media for education is the presentation of contents (learning objects) inadequate according to both the users' previous knowledge and the subject of courses in which they are enrolled. This paper tries to fill this gap by proposing an educational environment for iDTV, supported by an adequate standard for classification of learning objects for t-learning, in order to deliver educational contents for iDTV, according to users' knowledge level and suitability of contents to ongoing course.

The interactive educational television system proposed in this paper enables the participants in a satellite TV session to view and hear the presenters via a typical satellite broadcast system and interact with the presenters and each other using an Internet computer conferencing system. Thus it consists of two parallel information systems operating side by side, with the added ability to display the Internet conference output on the television broadcast. The base layer consists of a typical satellite TV broadcast system. The second is an Internet multiuser conferencing system, such as a multiuser dimension (MUD).

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2019), 2019

With the recent emergence of the interactive TV, the iTV starts to gain ground as a learning social media forgotten in the last decades due to previously existing applications (smart phones, tablets, laptops) that surpassed it. The TV has always been used as a means of transmission and family conciliatory, but, at the same time, the necessary feedback, as well as its adaptation to the users' preferences, language level, and age have always been lacking in every learning process that smart televisions can currently provide. In this sense, it seems necessary, on the one hand, to investigate the different characteristics and capabilities of smart televisions and, on the other, to design educational learning pills for English language learning through adaptive smart TVs. To achieve the aforementioned objectives an interactive methodology based on family/ peer gaming will be presented as a way to awake collective and social learning. The expected results will be an application developed with Hybrid Broadcast Broadband technology including a content recommendation system designed considering the user's preferences and a set of educational pills created by a team of linguists and experts in language and methodology. To conclude, this project seeks to promote language learning acquisition in a fun and entertaining way and enhance the experience with their television which has been a traditional model representing bond and time to gather around family and friends.

2016

The hybrid TV is an alternative for the regional channels of terrestrial digital TV. It allows to develop and deliver content and applications for broadcast and broadband. This article introduces the concepts of HbbTV, Hybrid TV, proposed scenarios for hybrid TV, a proposal to develop contents for hybrid TV, and a simulated prototype called educaTV that apply Agile Model of Development Educational Content for Interactive Digital Television (MADCE –TVD). This proposal was submitted for review through an online survey to different people. The results shows that almost 83% believe it is possible to educate yourself with the consumption of this type of content on TV. This research is part of the project "Development and application of edutainment contents in TDT and hybrid TV in the regions of the Antioquia department".

Computers in Entertainment, 2007

Despite the criticism concerning the value of TV content, research reveals several worthwhile aspects --one of them is the opportunity to learn. In this article we explore the characteristics of interactive TV applications that facilitate education and interactive entertainment. In doing so we analyze research methods and empirical results from experimental and field studies. The findings suggest that interactive TV applications provide support for education and entertainment for children and young people, as well as continuous education for all. In particular, interactive TV is especially suitable for (1) informal learning and (2) for engaging and motivating its audience. We conclude with an agenda for future interactive TV research in entertainment and education.

Summary This document briefly describes a Multimedia System capable of generating Online Learning Environments (OLE), namely, educational websites, through an entertainment Interface as the Interactive Television. Also presented are the motivations for the development of the above mentioned System, the System functionalities, the system development environment, the conclusions and future work.

2003

As Distance Education grows in popularity and importance, new formats such as Interactive Television offer the advantage of real-time visual and audio interaction between instructors and students. In the early years, the development of interactive television systems as a medium for distance learning provided the users only with the ability to react to a given linear programme, rather than directly control the programme contents. Research however has shown the emphasis on creating a compelling interactive programme for TV delivery to allow the users to control the content. Unfortunately, while millions of dollars have been spent and a lot of research has been undertaken, the most people have access to, is something akin to a searchable teletext system. According to this discovery, we have been conducting research on interactive educational material production by applying interaction technology to traditional distance learning methods. As an initial step in creating a new type of delivering distance learning material, we have produced a prototype system. This paper describes the prototype system, and outlines its problem areas and required improvements. For our experiments, the NEAB GCSE English Syllabus.1111 provided by the National Curriculum 2000 has been chosen as the content source for delivering distance learning material via iTV.

World Conference on …, 2004

Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video - EuroITV '10, 2010

Advanced Technologies and Standards for Interactive Educational Television: Emerging Research and Opportunities, 2020

This chapter examines which capabilities of interactive TV can be used to enhance the foreign languages learning experience in children and adolescents. In modern English language courses, interactive whiteboard software and interactive e-books provide several multimedia capabilities, whose relative transition in their iTV version can be of great benefit for students. The possible changes that the educational process may undergo due to the use of interactive TV in the light of the blended learning model, as well as the expected benefits of this transition are discussed in this chapter. It also examines how beneficial the use of iTV functions as a support process in the traditional classroom model would be and if it is feasible to use it autonomously entirely for the learning process, considering the specificities of the age group under consideration.