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Multimedia in visual art education

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Telelearning :the multimedia revolution in education

Prepared for:

ENCIK KHAIREZAN BIN RAHMAT

Prepared by :

NUR’IZZAH BINTI MOHAMMED FAUDZAN

2013523837

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Overview

This article is about exploring the education via multimedia technology . Interactive

multimedia in a complex world of constant change, education cannot be something that one

acquire during youth to serve for an entire lifetime . Day after day, the world technology has

become more powerful and it will be introduced in education to overcome the hardest in once

situation. It creating a new form of electronic by enhance the online learning experienced by

presenting content in combination of audio , video , graphics , and text in various format to

address a range student learning styles. The advent of multimedia and multimedia

technologies has changed the way educators teach and students learn. With multimedia, the

communication of the information can be done in a more effective manner and it can be an

effective instructional medium for delivering information.

Although multimedia have been technically feasible for so many years only recently

has it because a major focus for commercial development . Presenting course materials

through multimedia engages students in ways that are not possible with a textbook alone.

There are a lot of advantages by using multimedia as a toll of learning. For example

student receive training when and where they need it. This is save a lot more time and

energy to do some work. Other than that, students can adjourn training at any point in the

lesson and return to it letter. Besides that , the training is highly effectives because it is based

on the most powerful principal of individualization learning . A similar revolution is underway

in training aimed at upgrading employee skills for more complex , changing jobs . According

to Nancy Kenworthy at the international training company “multimedia is the preferred

method of training.

Description of methodology

The tool system ( knowledge-based system )

To make electronics education a reality , ‘knowledge-based systems will be essential.

Known as computer program containing a body of knowledge and heuristic (rules based on

the experienced of an expert) that assist in understanding some field of study . It also

developing rapidly , and in a decade so they use in elementary and secondary school.

Science , geography , history have been introduced by interactive videodisc to give a view

like reality world. It could be link videodisc technology to enhance classroom instruction by

tutoring students. The multimedia courseware can also be packaged on the CD-ROM and

delivered in a networked classroom leading to a teacher-centered mode where the

courseware is opened on their PCs and the students follow the teacher’s lecture on their

PCs.Supposedly intelligent tutoring system should become common in school soon after the

year 2000 as a tool of teaching and learning. With multimedia, the teacher is

now the director of the knowledge and can use the various combinations of media elements

to create interactive educational content. The result is a stimulating environment for learning

and retaining the information delivered.

Here is some content that might be shared of coming changed in education by

E.Halal and J.Liebowitz. Some subject will be conducted electronic by using local area

network (LAN) or wifi . This can be started for student at the university to integrate many

aspect of college life that have been long segregated in separate building . Other than that ,

electronic access to library catalogue will eliminate the need for some references space . So

that non residential students will be able to attend lectures and use libraries from distance

locations. Moreover , This multimedia material can be used to foster team-processing and

active learning as with collaborative and cooperative methods. This encourages higher- level

learning, increases comprehension and retention rates, and focuses on the total

development of the student in self-accessed and self-directed learning. In the mixed mode,

the teacher has the flexibility to incorporate the two teachingand learning approaches

whenever they deem them useful, to increase and enhance their students’ learning

processes .

Distance learning

Interactive multimedia and knowledge-based system offer great promise for

conducting education over long distance . personal computers , educational compact disc ,

online data based and network will make home schooling increasingly effective. Distance

education is a brave new world: dynamic, engaging, evolving, and growing. Individuals can

study from virtually anywhere without having to physically relocate to attend a college or

university. The field of visual impairments has been coping with a critical shortage of

teachers, funding, and training for several decades (Mason, Davidson, & McNerney, 2000).

Distance education has evolved from the correspondence course of the past to an interactive

virtual classroom where teacher and student roles are being redefined (Ferrell, 2000). The

instructor no longer stands in front of the class lecturing but is now the designer of a learning

environment. The student’s role has changed from that of a passive learner sitting in the

classroom to that of an active seeker of information. The emphasis has shifted from the

teacher teaching to the student learning.

These technology also fit in nicely with the rapid emergence of collaborative learning

and group problem solving . The benificiaries will include not simply those children whose

parents opt for years round home schooling , but also those who are homebound due to

illness or bad weather. The technolofies can also be used to augment normal school

education somewhat like homework assignment .

Distance education presents many challenges to students and instructors. Instructors

must adjust to a changing role in a classroom transformed from the physical to the virtual.

Although instructors can no longer rely on traditional methods of instruction to engage and

sustain students’ attention, the isolation that students feel in the virtual classroom is real and

can affect their learning negatively. Multimedia, in conjunction with traditional teaching

materials, enhances the educational experience for online students by offering a variety of

ways in which to learn and interact with content. Distance learning bears little resemblance

to the correspondence school of a century ago , except that students can participate in

education programs from anywhere in the world.

Evaluation

Many people are rightly concerned that electronically mediated education will lack the

human touch that is essential for true understanding . According to Linda Pratt , professor of

English at the university of Nebraska “there’s no substitute for that immediate dialogue that

occurs in a classroom . On the one hand , anyone has participate in computer conferencing

or other interactive multimedia knows that the intensity of relationship can be astounding .

Even religious services are now commonly held over computer bulletin boards and

participate usually find their experienced more profoundly spiritual that services in a church

or temple .

In my opinion , multiple method evaluation , which include both quantitative and

qualitative methodology ,would provide a broader view. Future development are almost

certain to surprise us to some extent . However a few major features about the future of

education are fairly clearer . Today’s wave of interest in education “choice” is rolling on in

public school because the entrepreneurial features of a market system are needed to provide

the flexibility required by the information age.

Besides that , there is a remarkable growth in the interest and use of multimedia

programmes besides the growth in skill in developing multimedia programmes. There is an

ocean of content on the Internet, developed without really worrying about the quality of it. To

design and develop a quality program, we must spend some time to understand the qualities

of a good multimedia program and a website. As we discuss the evaluation of multimedia

programmes below, we shall limit our discussion to the educational software, because the

objective of evaluation and the process of evaluation of various multimedia programmes shall

vary substantially.

A major tenet of multimedia education is the acceptance of the fact that no single

method or medium is appropriate and perfect for all individuals. Every individual has

his/her own preferred methods of information reception and processing. Evaluation of

multimedia software cannot be and should not be a terminal or one time activity. It has to an

on-going and continuous process.

Discussion of implications

Developments in technology is also an important issue. As a new technology comes

up and people start using it, any programme not providing such a facility would not be

appreciated. To keep a programme floating and popular new options and facilities

need to be incorporated. Sometimes, some of the basic design concepts and the

architecture of these older programmes may well appear to have been superceded

by recent developments. Users who may be familiar with the features that are being

replaced, and so, replacing them may demand users to learn new features and

unlearn the old ones. New features do not always result in improved functionality. For

the sake of simplicity and elegance of design, older features could be resuscitated.

In my opinion , there is little doubt that the changing role of education is currenly

being reinforced with the integration of multimedia technologies. This has led to a new

paradigm in education and the evolution of new concepts in content development and a

number of innovative methods in which information can be communicated to the learners.

This new learning environment will undoubtedly influence the way teachers teach and

students learn.

Moreover , live in a urban devolopement should be give some approaches to this

telelearning methods for enhance the way of teaching and learning . The key to unlocking the

new possibilities is to envision modern education as an omnipresent activity. As the

technology for acquiring and distributing knowledge permeates home , work , and all other

locations , all social functions should be integrated into a seamless web of learning . It give

some advanteges to people who closed with multimedia rather than holiding a thick text

book. Books unlimited in the world of multimedia technology so they can read anywhere ,

anytime and everywhere they like .