Multimedia in Education

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This paper explains that multimedia holds great promise for improving the quality of education because multimedia provides the ability to illustrate ideas with visual, audio, text or any combination of media so learners can create new ways of communicating ideas. The author points out that concepts, which are difficult to explain, become clearer when they can be frozen on a videodisc and discussed; and children who have difficulty expressing ideas in writing now have a new way with which to communicate and to learn. The paper relates that multimedia allows users to be active learners, controlling access and manipulating vast quantities of information on the computer in a learning environment.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Usefulness of Multimedia in Educational Setting
Issues of Using Multimedia in Educational Setting
Effective Strategies
Conclusion

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"Although multimedia seems to have great promise, it is necessary to critically evaluate what factors in particular make it successful and to investigate how it can be used most effectively with extension audiences. To date, preliminary research on the use of interactive multimedia curricula has revealed some important clues. Some research suggested that when a new concept is presented in multimedia, a single medium should explain the new concept. Studies have found repeatedly that text and auditory explanations presented simultaneously promoted significantly less learning than either text or auditory explanations alone. What it is explaining here is that multiple media all at once can be confusing to a learner. So, it is important to keep it simple, providing visual-based text and auditory explanations at different points in the curricula. At the same time, we should also keep in mind that the presentation should not have a gender-stereotyped theme."

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