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Flexible learning in electrical engineering
by Hemanshu R Pota
Australian Defence Force Academy
ABSTRACT
by Hemanshu R Pota
Australian Defence Force Academy
ABSTRACT
Interactive multimedia has been touted as the most promising pedagogical approach in recent years, but research in the design and development of an interactive multimedia instruction has been rather sparse.
This paper will report one such research study and will highlight how some virtual novices in interactive multimedia create real, but scaled down instructional interactive multimedia projects by processing and applying newly acquired multimedia concepts and learning theory principles when designing their interactive multimedia instructional programs.
Special effort has been made to study how the participants design, use problem-solving strategies to integrate interactive multimedia elements like hypertexting, navigation, interactivity into their mini interactive multimedia project in a cognitive and constructivistic environment.
Constructivism places the emphasis on students learning how to build their own knowledge of subjects. This constructivist approach alters, but does not diminish the teacher's role as the teacher now functions as a mentor or coach who guides students in their construction of knowledge. The instructional aim is to guide these virtual multimedia novices to produce a real and tangible interactive multimedia module for instructional purposes.
This research forms part of a Ph.D. study undertaken by the author at the School of Scientific and Developmental Studies in Education at Deakin University. As the research is a naturalistic case study, the researcher was also the instructor of the class.
The participants were actively engaged in creating their own interactive multimedia project for instructional purposes and which they presented at the end of the semester. Segments of their final interactive multimedia project work will be shown during the presentation.
The findings of this research will hopefully shed some light on the complexities of interactive multimedia/hypermedia design, production and presentation especially for virtual interactive multimedia novices.
This paper will report one such research study and will highlight how some virtual novices in interactive multimedia create real, but scaled down instructional interactive multimedia projects by processing and applying newly acquired multimedia concepts and learning theory principles when designing their interactive multimedia instructional programs.
Special effort has been made to study how the participants design, use problem-solving strategies to integrate interactive multimedia elements like hypertexting, navigation, interactivity into their mini interactive multimedia project in a cognitive and constructivistic environment.
Constructivism places the emphasis on students learning how to build their own knowledge of subjects. This constructivist approach alters, but does not diminish the teacher's role as the teacher now functions as a mentor or coach who guides students in their construction of knowledge. The instructional aim is to guide these virtual multimedia novices to produce a real and tangible interactive multimedia module for instructional purposes.
This research forms part of a Ph.D. study undertaken by the author at the School of Scientific and Developmental Studies in Education at Deakin University. As the research is a naturalistic case study, the researcher was also the instructor of the class.
The participants were actively engaged in creating their own interactive multimedia project for instructional purposes and which they presented at the end of the semester. Segments of their final interactive multimedia project work will be shown during the presentation.
The findings of this research will hopefully shed some light on the complexities of interactive multimedia/hypermedia design, production and presentation especially for virtual interactive multimedia novices.
Contact Details
Hemanshu Pota
School of Electrical Engineering,
Australian Defence Force Academy,
University of NSW,
Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6268 8197
Fax: (02) 6268 8443
Email: pota@adfa.oz.au
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