%0 Conference Paper %B ED-MEDIA and ED-TELECOM 1999,Seattle, Washington, USA %D 1999 %T Deployment scenarios of Dves in Education %A Christos Bouras %A Vaggelis Kapoulas %A A Koubek %A H Mayer %X DVEs, along with the Internet in general, offer a number of attractive features for the education sector. However deployment in traditional educational environments, such as secondary schools, has not been achieved on a noticeable scale so far. In this contribution, we discuss technical and pedagogical issues, and specifically define possible scenarios of how this technology can be introduced to the school sector in a sustainable way. %B ED-MEDIA and ED-TELECOM 1999,Seattle, Washington, USA %P 317 - 322 %8 19 - 24 June %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B IEEE Multimedia Systems'99, Special Session on European Projects, Florence, Italy %D 1999 %T Virtual European School-VES %A Christos Bouras %A Vaggelis Kapoulas %A A Koubek %A D Fotakis %A H Mayer %A H Rehatscheck %X The Virtual European School (VES) is an ongoing European project - funded by the Educational Multimedia Task Force Initiative of the European Union - with the aim to develop a comprehensive on-line resource of teaching material for secondary school education. The system will be fed by a group of smaller publishing houses from different European countries (Austria, Italy, Greece, Great Britain) specialised in educational material. The offer will contain multimedia material, CBT products, and also additional background materials, such as passages from schoolbooks, or Internet resources. The technical structure of the VES system will be based on Internet technologies, with interconnected VES servers in each participating region. The multimedia material will be stored in a database, with multi-lingual annotations for each project. There exist three user groups within the VES: publishers, teachers and pupils. %B IEEE Multimedia Systems'99, Special Session on European Projects, Florence, Italy %P 1055 - 1057 %8 7 - 11 June %G eng