Some Ideas on Multimedia Application in Education

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Some Ideas on Multimedia Application in Education

• Philip Lei
• Lecturer, Computer Studies Program
• Macau Polytechnic Institute

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Outline

• Multimedia courseware, application in traditional
  lectures
• Multimedia education let students learn how to
  take advantage of multimedia
• Virtual classroom, online education computer
  mediated interaction between instructors and
  learners

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Multimedia

• Text, still pictures
• Hypertext
• Audio/Video
• Interactive animation / simulated environment
• Virtual reality,

Challenge how to integrate them in an education
environment
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Multimedia Courseware

• Pedagogical material in classroom lectures
  textbook, notes, exercise, slides, instructors
  speech, interaction between instructors and
  students
• How to enrich them with multimedia?

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Multimedia Education

• Help students to acquire the skills to
• create multimedia clips
• manage the content
• utilize them in learning activities and their
  careers

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Campus Radio

• A web portal for MPI students, run by MPI
  students, used by MPI students
• Provides opportunities of creating and managing
  multimedia content
• Encourage sharing ideas and opinions in the web
  media

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Campus Radio

• Students compose and post media-rich articles,
  which contain text, images and audio/video
  recording
• Instructors assist students in technical
  operations, e.g. running a web server and
  streaming media server

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Virtual Classroom

• Facilitates interaction between Instructors and
  Learners
• I2L interaction between one instructor and
  multimedia learners Education TV online
• L2L encourages collaborative learning
  activities
• I2I leverages the teaching expertise of
  multiple instructors exercise database

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Education TV online

• Put the lessons of the Macau Education TV on the
  web
• An ongoing student graduation project
• Integrate the video recording, textual course
  material, and vocal recording in an interactive
  learning site

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Education TV online

• Students can study
• at their own pace,
• anytime,
• anywhere.
• Customized course for student
• Better utilization of the bandwidth and course
  material

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Demo

• Multimedia audio, interactive animation
• Education TV online
• Live broadcast, over telephone