The ASTEP educational multimedia framework

Abstract

This paper addresses the use of multimedia frameworks for the delivery, support and assessment of trainees for process-based high-technology companies. This framework is the basis of an European telematics network that is being developed in the ASTEP project for semiconductor fabrication, microsystem manufacturing and high-level design and test activities. ASTEP (Advanced Software for Teaching and Evaluation of Processes, project reference number MM1001) is a project being carried out in the framework of the Commission of the European Community Action on Educational Multimedia and will deliver a set of multimedia course modules designed for the semiconductor industry. The ASTEP consortium combines companies from this industry area and universities, with the final objective of improving the qualification of the skilled workforce required for a competitive semiconductor industry in Europe. The ASTEP strategies to achieve success, namely in what concerns the exploitation of results, the technical and pedagogical approaches and the mechanisms set up to assure constant update of course contents, are presented as well.