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Fezile Mlungu,
Materials Developer, Centre for Learning and Teaching Development
Interactive multimedia: its related computer applications and emerging technologies
Interactive Multimedia refers to any kind of user input
including typing commands or clicking the mouse which
results in computer application displaying multimedia
images, text, videos, sounds, animations and still images. It
has an ability to give the learners a combination of the
audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the
printing press and interactive power of the computer.
It is better to give an explanation in multimedia content
forms, eg, words and pictures, than words only and that
explanation and the multimedia forms that company the
explanation must be presented alongside each other not in
separate pages. Voice narrations to explanations, not only
on screen text, must be provided.
Students who listened to a narration explaining how a
bicycle tire pump works while also viewing a corresponding
animation generated twice as many useful solutions to
subsequent problem solving transfer questions than did
students who listened to the same narration without
viewing any animation (Mayer & Anderson, 1991, 1992).
students given multimedia explanations are able to build
two different mental representations - a verbal model and a
visual model--and build connections between them.
Interactive multimedia allows learners to test themselves
for prior knowledge before they go to the actual classroom.
This reduces time for teaching and encourages knowledge
retention.
Intuitive and user friendly multimedia application encourage
learner participation and learning experience.
With multimedia, users become participants in an exciting
experience involving the sensory modalities of sight, sound
and touch, all of which naturally facilitate learning (Khoo
Cheng Choo – National University of Singapore).
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