Multimedia refers to using multiple mediums like text, audio, images, animation, and video together. When used for education, multimedia can support learning in various ways to meet different student needs. Key elements of multimedia include text, audio, video, graphics, and animation. Multimedia requires both hardware and software to deliver content to students. While multimedia offers benefits to teaching and learning, its effective use in education requires considering factors like the audience, educational goals, and classroom resources.

1. THE ROLE OF
MULTIMEDIA IN
EDUCATION

4. DEFINITION OF MULTIMEDIA
 From the words „multi‟ and
„media/medium‟
 Multi – refers to many or multiple
 Media/medium – is a tool, vehicle or
agent to present or convey something
 Multimedia is all about communicating in
several ways

5. Multimedia Defined
Multimedia means two or more media:
sound, images, text, animation, and video.
When the term is used with computer technology, multimedia refers
to a variety of applications that combine media and that use CD-
ROM, video, audio, DVD, and other media equipment.

6. Introduction
 The world in which we live is changing
rapidly
 the field of education is experiencing
these changes in particular as it applies to
Media Services.
 The growth in use of multimedia within the
education sector has accelerated in
recent years.

7.  Teachers primarily require access to learning
resources.
 which can support concept development by
learners in a variety of ways to meet individual
learning needs.
 The development of multimedia technologies for
learning offers new ways in which learning can take
place in schools and the home.

8. MULTIMEDIA ELEMENTS
AUDIO
TEXT VIDEO
MULTIMEDIA
SYSTEM
GRAPHIC ANIMATION
INTERACTIVE

9. Text
 text has the most impact on the quality of
the multimedia interaction.
 acts as the keystone tying all of the other
media elements together.
 It is well written text that makes a
multimedia communication wonderful.

10. Sound
 enables teachers to present lots of
information at once.
 Sound used creatively, becomes a
stimulus to the imagination;
 For instance, a script, some still images
and a sound track, allow students to utilize
their own power of imagination without
being biased

11. A great advantage is that the sound file can be
stopped and started very easily.

12. Video
 The representation of information by using
the visualization capabilities of video can
be immediate and powerful.
 Video can be used to give examples of
phenomena or issues referred to in the
text
 For example, while students are reading
notes about a particular issue,

13. a video showing a short clip of the
author/teacher emphasizing the key
points can be inserted at a key moment
 dramatic ability to elicit an emotional
response from an individual.
 can provide a strong motivational
incentive to choose and persist in a task.

14. Animation
 used to show changes in state over time
 to present information slowly to students
 primarily used to demonstrate an idea or
illustrate a concept.
 Video is usually taken from life, whereas
animations are based on drawings.

15. Graphics
 provide the most creative possibilities for a
learning session.
 can be photographs, drawings, graphs
from a spreadsheet, pictures from CD-
ROM
 something pulled from the Internet
 the capacity of recognition memory for
pictures is almost limitless

16. MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE
 HARDWARE  SOFTWARE
 Input devices  Text
 Output devices  Graphic
 Audio
 Video
 Animation

17. Educational Requirements
 Employing multimedia tools into the
learning environment is a rewarding
 but complex and challenging task.
 All of the multimedia formats available:
text, sound, video, animation and
graphics, already exist in one form or
another in most libraries.
 Students can explore an almost infinite
variety of information.

18.  Giving students an opportunity to produce
multimedia documents of their own provides
several educational advantages.
 Students work with the same information from four
perspectives:
1. as researcher, they must locate and select the
information needed to understand the chosen
topic;
2. as authors, they must consider their intended
audience and decide what amount of information
is needed to give their readers an understanding
of the topic;

19. 3. as designers, they must select the
appropriate media to share the concepts
selected
4. as writers, they must find a way to fit the
information to the container including the
manner of linking the information for others
to retrieve.

20.  When defining the appropriate medium
to use it is vital to „know‟ the audience
and the technical specification of users‟
machines.
 It is important to bear in mind the nature
of the audience, especially their age
group and culture mix.

21. Human – Computer Interface
 Multimediaapplications like any other
application, appliance or tool, benefit
from being easy to use,

22. Classroom Architecture and
Resources
 The technology needed to support
classroom teaching has increased in
complexity.
 only a few years ago all that a lecture
room needed were some seats for the
students, and a blackboard and a lectern
or table for the teacher.
 . Now there is the computer, networks
and related display tools.

23.  From having a next to zero maintenance
cost, the teaching room is becoming not
only costly to equip, but costly to run and
maintain, including the escalating costs of
security.

24.  The live lecture in the digital theater is
concurrently broadcast to the remote
distance-learning site.
 Multimedia offers the lecturer many benefits
 satisfying educational objectives,
 increasing students understanding,
demonstrating events,
 showing places, conducting experiments
which would otherwise be impossible.

25.  Many school reform models focus on a
significant restructuring of the classroom.
 multimedia brings a new dimension to
reading and writing,
 develop basic skills in information retrieval
in multimedia environments.

26. Concerns
 The fusion of all types of media in a digital
world captures the ethos of the new
technological age
 Multimedia: a combination of video, text,
still images and sound can provide an
effective learning aid.
 “Putting computers into schools will
directly improve learning,”