Title: Sharing DICOM Learning Objects within a mobile Peer-To-Peer podacasting environment

Authors: J. Fiaidhi, M. Orabi, S. Mohammed

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada. ' Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada. ' Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada

Abstract: Mobile technology has exploded in healthcare because of its ability to improve the efficiency and accuracy of information exchange. This paper develops an innovative telemedical education system that enables peer learners to share medical multimedia such as DICOM Learning Objects (DLOs). In this system, facilitators and other student peers can publish such DLOs as Sharable Content Object Reference Model podcasts, where other peers can subscribe to it through their feeds. Such DLO podcasts can automatically be downloaded on the interested peer|s devices for review and annotation. The new telemedical education system represents a collaborative network of peers linked in a Friend-of-Friend fashion built on the JXME enabling mobile infrastructure.

Keywords: e-learning 2.0; learning objects; medical tele-education; mobile learning; P2P podcasting; social networking; Web 2.0; online learning; mobile communications; e-health; electronic healthcare; telemedical education; medical multimedia; collaborative networks; peer-to-peer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2008.018051

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2008 Vol.6 No.4, pp.417 - 435

Published online: 28 Apr 2008 *

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