Integrated Multimedia in Distance Education.

Autor/in	Greenburg, J. M.
Titel	Integrated Multimedia in Distance Education.
Quelle	(1994), (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Computer Assisted Instruction; Computer Uses in Education; Distance Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Humanities Instruction; Integrated Learning Systems; Multimedia Instruction; Multimedia Materials + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Computernutzung; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Geisteswissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Multimediales Lernen
Abstract	The British Open University delivers distance education to over 200,000 students per year. The University has been a multimedia institution since its inception and in addition to printed materials, currently ships to students in a single year: over 34,000 special equipment kits, around one million audiocassettes, over 100,000 videocassettes, and over 350,000 computer disks. The University has been looking at ways of creating integrated multimedia learning environments for students for a number of years. It was decided to find an existing course which lends itself to an integrated multimedia approach and establish a multimedia presentation that enhances the students' learning experience. The "Homer Project," consists of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" and commentary text for each; 15 essays from "Homer: Readings and Images"; two 120-minute videocassettes; four 90-minute and one 60-minute audiocassettes; and five printed guides which relate to and integrate the preceding items. The learning environment allows the student to progress along a prescribed study route on a weekly basis. Materials are integrated into the studies and are independently accessible by the students: Poems (the complete texts of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"); Library (a number of essays and companion texts to the poems); Sites (site plans and audiovisual material associated with Troy and Mycenae); Skills (activities to improve archaeological and literary skills); Museum (photographs of relevant artifacts held in museums and audiovisual material linking them to Troy and Mycenae); and A-Z (a chronological table relevant to the period covered on the poems). Developmental testing of this learning environment in order to determine educational effectiveness is currently taking place before the course is offered for credit. (MAS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC