This study aims to obtain data and information about the effectiveness and practicality of YouTube in learning German speaking for second-semester students of the German language education study program in terms of learning outcomes and student responses. This study was experimental research, and the experimental model used was a pre-experimental…

Second Life has become increasingly popular with educators and educational institutions, because of the educational possibilities it seems to offer. While there has been a lot of hype and academic publications about educational design or the theoretical framing of teaching in virtual environments, there have been few publications focusing on…

A humorous list of 10 guidelines details the obstacles and difficulties that a university educator faces in the production of an educational CD-ROM, and offers advice for those who choose to pursue multimedia development for educational purposes. (JKP)

Discusses the evaluation of the usefulness of multimedia materials in medical education. Approaches the issue by looking at the nature of the knowledge that medical professionals are expected to acquire and relating that knowledge to what multimedia applications have to offer. Multimedia applications must also be analyzed for whether they can…

This study examined the views of 70 undergraduate and graduate students exposed to multimedia projections in a classroom. It found that students supported the integration of animation, music, and voice; perceived screens to be better organized and clearer than traditional classroom settings; and were more interested in the material presented in…

This document chronicles the development of a hypermedia CD-ROM product that offered information on the island of Cyprus. The hypermedia environment was designed for use by students and educators in eleventh grade up to the college level, and it was intended to fill gaps in multicultural knowledge by enabling individualized, self-paced instruction…

This collection presents papers pertaining to the wide area of educational multimedia and hypermedia. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of information on the research, development, and applications in all areas of multimedia/hypermedia in education across all disciplines and levels of education. The papers cover a wide range…

Describes a layered analytical framework for discussing design and educational issues that can be shared by the many different stakeholders involved in educational multimedia design and deployment. Illustrates the framework using a detailed analysis of the Galapagos Pilot project of the Open University science faculty which examines the processes…

A multimedia software package, ASTOUND, has been used by the University of South Carolina (USC) Sumter in the development of lectures and support learning materials in a computer literacy course. A hardware setup, known as the Tech Commander, which provides immediate feedback for both students and instructor as work is being done in the lab, has…

The Auraria Media Center conducted a needs assessment in the spring of 1994 to learn whether it correctly perceived, and how it can better serve, the changing educational technology needs of faculty. Faculty from the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the University of Colorado at Denver responded to an…

This collection presents papers pertaining to the wide area of educational multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of information on the research, development, and applications in all areas of multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications in education across all disciplines and levels.…

This paper investigates the usability of educational metadata schemas with respect to the case of the MALTED (Multimedia Authoring Language Teachers and Educational Developers) project at University College London (UCL). The project aims to facilitate authoring of multimedia materials for language learning by allowing teachers to share multimedia…

Suggestions to help teachers create original multimedia presentations and lessons include building resource teams, knowing intellectual property and copyright issues, analyzing target audiences, carefully selecting media, considering hardware and software requirements, seeking technical support, encouraging distribution on the World Wide Web,…

An analysis of an introductory multimedia production course for preservice instructional design professionals was conducted at a large Midwestern university to determine if and how students' attitudes toward instructional media production was affected as a result of taking the course. Data was collected from the students and instructors in the…

This instructional development project evaluates the effect of a matrix-based strategy to assist multimedia authors in acquiring and applying principles for effective multimedia design. The Multimedia Matrix, based on the Park and Hannafin "Twenty Principles and Implications for Interactive Multimedia" design, displays a condensed…