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Multimedia in Online Courses - Bells and Whistles or Solutions?

Cool Stuff

 

 

Introduction
text and audio
text, audio, and graphics
Flash - 1st generation
Flash - 2nd generation
Flash - 3rd generation
Powerpoint to Flash
Powerpoint to QuickTime

Flash - Cool stuff

What's next?
 
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We continue to look for better ways to present our content and make it more interactive. Here's an example. An interactive self-quiz mechanism for a basic Math course. Students are able to check their understanding of the concepts using this player.

Try this, click on the first answer and submit.

Oops, it's wrong. Ok, click on the second answer and submit.

Oops, wrong again. At this point, we know the student is just guessing, so they don't get another try. Instead they are provided the correct answer.

Click on Solution.

If they still don't understand, they can click on Review and it will take them back to the exact place in the lesson where this content is covered.

Project Manager and Designer: Trish Nickel
Flash Developer: Mark Chapman

Pretty cool, huh? The next generation of this player will be connected to a database so that the student can come back to this player multiple times and get new questions to work with.

So what did we learn along the way?........

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Presentation made by Eli Collins-Brown at the
19th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
Madison, WI
August 13 - 15, 2003

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