WebRTC based remote collaborative online learning platform

Abstract

Recently, as the number of smart devices increases, the way of digital broadcast contents is changed. This change leads that conventional broadcast media acceptsWeb platform and its services to provide more quality contents. Based on this change, in education field, education broadcasting also follows the trend. The traditional education broadcasting platforms, which just delivered a lecture in one-way, are utilized the Web technology to make interaction between teacher and student. The conventional education platforms, however, are insufficient to satisfy users' demands for two-way interactions. This paper proposes a new remote collaborative learning platform which able to provide high interactivity among users. Based on new functional requirements from original use case, the proposed platform provides collaborative contents sharing and collaborative video streaming techniques by utilizing WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) technology. The implementation demonstrates the operability of proposed system.