Multimedia for Learning: Methods and Development FROM THE PUBLISHER
Features
Research-based and applied text written by highly regarded authorities in the field.
New To This Edition
Extensively updated to cover the most current applications and edited to eliminate old topics.
Coverage of modern multimedia (video and audio) and methods such as hypermedia and Web-based learning addresses the practical needs of teachers today (Chs. 5 and 11).
Discussion of open-ended learning environments presents a recent topic teachers will be interested to examine (Ch. 9).
Chapter summaries conclude most chapters to highlight critical information.
SYNOPSIS
This book shows how to use computers in educational settings by combining learning theory and instructional strategies to help the reader design software for learning and instruction.
The book has been extensively revised to include new approaches to multimedia instruction as well as updating established methods such as tutorials, drills, simulations, games, and computer-based tests. Constructivist and instructivist approaches are analyzed and presented. The book is not equipment or software specific.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Updating the 1991 edition of this volume, the authors cover general theories of learning applicable to all software for learning; a review of basic software characteristics; analysis of traditional and new methodologies for multimedia-based learning including tutorials, hypermedia, drills, simulations, games, tools, and open-ended learning environments, tests, and Web-based learning, with analysis in each case of the methodology's effectiveness. The last part describes a model for design and development, with practical suggestions for completing a project. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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