Multimedia

Multimedia presentations are being put into use from classroom to boardroom. Don’t be surprised to see a multimedia presentation at your next family get together or from your children laying out the need for an increase in their allowance. Nobody can doubt the impact of a multimedia presentation complete with multimedia sound. The world has changed with its use of multimedia projectors. Anywhere there is an outlet and a multimedia projector there is a chance for a multimedia presentation that could sell ice to an Eskimo.

There is no venue that can’t benefit from multimedia presentations. Politics, education, community affairs, health and mental health facilities; these and more make use of multimedia programs. The following is an excerpt from an article touching on the effectiveness of multimedia. You can read the whole article at the link below.

Many people have attempted to study the effectiveness of multimedia to decide how best to use multimedia to achieve goals of educating, informing, improving retention, or convincing audiences. If multimedia could be shown to be effective, computer and telecommunications companies could sell more multimedia applications, which in turn would drive hardware and telecommunications sales. Children could learn (and pass standardized tests) better with multimedia applications helping them and helping teachers teach better and more effectively. Companies could rest easy knowing that multimedia advertisements were indeed convincing their customers. News delivery services would know that they were competitive in using multimedia and would attract lots of eyeballs that would also view ads and thus encourage more ads, which pay their bills and salaries.

There are a lot of design guidelines. However few are based on rigorous evidence or theory. Most are based on larger or smaller amounts of experience and anecdotal evidence.

Studies tracked and conducted by Dr. Thomas Russell under the rubric of "no significant differences" spanned several decades. Each study showed that multimedia and distance learning neither helped nor harmed the learning process. Because distance learning tends to be less expensive and more convenient (at least for students) than face-to-face lectures with non-multimedia visual aids, such studies encourage use of distance learning with multimedia. However, there have also been many studies that showed a significant difference between the effects of the two education environments. Some but not all showed that multimedia and distance learning were helpful.

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