Digital Broadcasting and Interactive Television in Distance Education: Digital and Interactive Television Infrastructure Proposol for Anadolu University Open Education Faculty

Year 2007, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 64 - 72, 01.03.2007

Reha Recep Ergul

Abstract

Rapid changes and improvements in the communication and information technologies beginning from the midst of the 20th Century and continuing today require new methods, constructions, and arrangements in the production and distribution of information. While television having the ability of presenting complex or difficult to comprehend concepts, subjects, and experimental studies to learners from different points of view, supported by 2D or 3D graphics and animations with audio visual stimulators replaces its technology from analog to digital and towards digital-interactive, it has also begun to convert the broadcasting technology in Turkey in this direction. Therefore, television broadcast infrastructure of Anadolu University Open Education Faculty needs to be replaced with a digital and interactive one. This study contains basic concepts of digital and interactive broadcasting and the new improvements. Furthermore, it includes the approaches in the basis of why and how a digital television broadcasting infrastructure should be stablished.

Keywords

Distance Education, Digital Broadcasting, Digital and Interactive Television

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Reha Recep ERGUL Anadolu University Faculty of Open Education

Abstract

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