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The Network Education Ware
Project

What’s NEW ?

NEW is a powerful and robust Internet teaching and conferencing environment based on open-source Internet conferencing software.

NEW is a suite of open-source distance education software, which is highly modular and makes efficient use of both network bandwidth and human time.

NEW is easy to adapt for a wide variety of distance education and conferencing uses.

What’s special about NEW ?

To create NEW , we have added "glue" functions to other groups' openly available software (keeping all original functions). We have cleaned up bugs when necessary, and are making the whole system available as open-source on this website.

What are the features of NEW ?

• Multi-platform: Windows and Linux (Macintosh soon)
• Based on a multicasting model using linked servers
• TCP tunnel option works through firewalls and NATs
• Authentication with web-based access
• Multi-user audio with floor control
• Text chat with remote URL launch
• Whiteboard supports multi-user drawing
• Whiteboard imports slides and application windows
• Application launching on remote client computers under floor control
• Authoring for whiteboard slides from any application
• Usable over 56K modem links (without video)
• Record and playback at any site
• Both streaming playback and download playback available
• Simple integration of any multicast-based tool
• Tools may be run on single or multiple computers
• Transport Layer Multicaster (TLM)   Features
• Adaptation of Speak Freely   Features
• Master client (TLMC)   Features

How does NEW work ?

• Illustration of NEW configuration
• Illustrations of NEW user interface
• Description of NEW system. (PDF)

What’s the latest news about NEW ?

• Whiteboard continuously imports application window
• Whiteboard has improved control layout and function
• Whiteboard has an improved slide import utility for Microsoft PowerPoint JPEGs with titles preserved
• Floor control downloads datafiles in background and uses them to run the same application on all users' machines, under control of the floorholder
• Used by eleven courses at George Mason for Fall 2008.
• Beta version of recorder editor now available

Please visit this site again to try something NEW !