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Summary: DECAF: A DIGITAL CLASSROOM APPLICATION FRAMEWORK
Allan Knight
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
email: aknight@cs.ucsb.edu
Kevin Almeroth
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
email: almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu
ABSTRACT
This paper outlines the design and evaluation of the Dig-
ital Classroom Application Framework (DeCAF). DeCAF
is designed to provide an environment upon which multi-
media applications for the classroom can be developed and
evaluated. With the inclusion of multimedia in the modern
digital classroom comes new paradigms for teaching. Also,
the combination of the Internet and multimedia allow dig-
ital classrooms to accommodate many forms of distance
learning. However, state of the art applications for digital
classrooms are usually monolithic in nature and lack any
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