What is Multimedia?

- is a computer-based interactive communications process that incorporates text, graphics, sound, animation, and video.
Interactive
Key feature of multimedia
-User determines what content is delivered, when it is delivered and how
Non-linear
-it doesn’t follow a particular sequential path but follows
a path based on the user’s choices.
Computer-based Multimedia
2 or more media types
-Computer multimedia
-Multi-sensory experience – real world
-Multi-sensory memory imprints
-Different learning styles benefit
-Hypertext - links
-Hypermedia - hypermedia ware
Hypermedia
-Based on cognitive theories of how people
structure knowledge and how they learn
-Links to navigate
-Non-sequential navigation
Hypermedia Applications
-Instructional courseware
-Appropriately introduced
-Follow-up activities
-Teacher and students’ own creations
Multimedia Advantages
-Engrossing – deep involvement
- Multi-sensory
-Creates knowledge connections
-Individualized
-Teacher and student creation
Multimedia Disadvantages
-“Lost in cyberspace”
-Lack of structure
-Non-interactive – if one-way, no feedback
-Text intensive content
-Complex to create
-Time consuming
-Cognitive overload
-Linear content