Web Streaming Technology for Medical Physics E-Learning

The Authors report about their own implementation of the video streaming technology for e-learning inside a web application for educational aims, as they utilizes it inside the university courses of Physics in a School of Medicine. In the past the AAs have already setup a virtual laboratory on the web (called “WebLab”), which up today has received many awards and much more accesses, to allow the students to exercise and practice with the most familiar experiments of the physics without the necessity and danger of a “real” laboratory. During the time, such WebLab was growing more and more and today it consists of several tens of applets about science (primarily physics and mathematics). As web technology was growing from its side, they have added other sections, for the possibility of remote learning verifying the level of skill from the students that are working with it. More recently the AAs, Physics Professors in the Medicine School of Messina University, have developed a new section which offers the possibility to access to a selected database of Physics movies using the streaming technology. In this paper the AAs report also a first feedback as reported by the users.