Making the most of the media in multimedia

Innovations in education and teaching …, 2001

Many people argue that interactive multimedia has the potential to create high quality learning environments which actively engage the learner, thereby promoting deep learning. However there is growing evidence that the potential of interactive multimedia is not being ful lled. This paper argues that if we are to design effective interactive learning application then a user-centred approach to their design should be taken. This approach should be based on general human-computer interaction principles as well as educational theory. The paper starts with an overview of the learning process. Consideration is then given to how the key elements of interactive multimedia (multiple media, user control over the delivery of information, and interactivity ) can be used to enhance that process, with the emphasis being on promoting deep learning. The paper concludes by giving suggestions for future work.

Asian Journal of Management Sciences Education, 2012

An instructional-sound Interactive Multimedia Courseware (IMC) that is interactive and effective contributes greatly to learning. Good IMC have multimedia components such as text, graphics, animation, video and audio in the courseware to generate interest, motivation and effective learning. It is carefully planned and developed to achieve targeted learning objectives. This study involved a group of university students (n= 94) who are student teachers of The School of Education and Social Development in a public university in Sabah, East Malaysia. They were required to develop IMC (a module) for teaching secondary school students. They were also requested to report on the number of multimedia components that they used in their IMC and also list constraints they faced throughout the period of IMC development. Findings revealed that 93.6% of the subjects used all the multimedia components namely the integration of text and graphics with animation, video or text in their IMC. It also showed that level of students' IMC programming skills was low in some area such as audio, video and animation production. Given such results, it recommended that institutions of higher learning should provide more multimedia hardware and software to facilitate IMC production and to upgrade the level of multimedia programming skills of student teachers.

Interactive multimedia is clearly a field of fundamental research, social, educational and economical importance, as it combines multiple disciplines for the development of multimedia systems that are capable to sense the environment and dynamically process, edit, adjust or generate new content. For this purpose, ideas, theories, methodologies and inventions are combined in order to form novel applications and systems. This book presents novel scientific research, proven methodologies and interdisciplinary case studies that exhibit advances under Interfaces and Interaction, Interactive Multimedia Learning, Teaching and Competence Diagnosis Systems, Interactive TV, Film and Multimedia Production and Video Processing. The chapters selected for this volume offer new perspectives in terms of strategies, tested practices and solutions that, beyond describing the state-of-the-art, may be utilised as a solid basis for the development of new interactive systems and applications.

Interactive multimedia in …, 2005

There have been many experiments and innovations in the field of education and training regarding knowledge delivery. From face-to-face to virtual education, different technologies have played great roles at different times. In the last two decades, due to the advent of computer technologies, information delivery has got new meaning. Development, access, and transfer of text, sound, and video data have given a unique face to classrooms, libraries, and training and resource centers, in the form of interactive multimedia programs.

1996

Abstract: This paper chronicles the Teaching Mathematics Using Interactive Videodisk (TMMUIV) pilot project. The project emerged in response to the need to train pre-service teachers in, among other things, the use of mathematics manipulatives. The project now can offer a video database and pilot instructional program that combines full-motion video, digitized audio, text, and graphics. Two instructional modes, classroom presentation and stand alone tutorial, help the teacher develop a repertoire of techniques. The report ...

1996

This paper focuses on setting up a system for developing and displaying multimedia classroom presentations that is both economical and easy to learn. Four separate aspects of the process are considered: (1) a hardware configuration to serve both the development and display processes, (2) selecting authoring software and learning to use it, (3) presentation development including locating and acquiring multimedia resources appropriate to psychology, and (4) some of the problems that can be expected to arise in both development and use of multimedia presentations, Some discussion of interactive courseware is included.