For Effective Use of Multimedia in Education, Teachers Must Develop their Own Educational Multimedia Applications

ABSTRACT

This paper makes the strong claim that for multimedia to have any significant effect on education, the educational multimedia applications must be designed by the teachers of those classes. The arguments supporting this claim are presented in the headlines: curriculum, software, hardware and evaluation. The paper begins with an introduction discusses what is a multimedia and a multimedia authoring tools and describes some typical areas of multimedia application development. Finally the paper ends with the action plan and concludes that we must and need as educator to create our own multimedia applications if we really want to make use of the multimedia applications as an effective tool in education.