The Multimedia Instruction Initiative: Implications For Engineering Education

Recently, East Carolina University reiterated its commitment to the delivery of high quality and effective instruction through their Multimedia Instruction Initiative. The purpose of the Initiative was to assist faculty in integrating electronically based instructional computing technologies into their respective curricula. A request for proposals yielded 39 applications from a variety of disciplines. Conveyed in the various proposals were a variety of approaches to the integration of multimedia technology, a variety of instructional settings in which the multimedia technology may be integrated, and a variety of perspectives on multimedia instruction. All have implications for the delivery of instruction in engineering education.