Teaching Multimedia Development To Engineering Students Through Web Based Modules

Multimedia training modules are powerful educational tools that provide students with engaging experiences in the classroom. This paper presents an approach to implement web-based modules for teaching engineering students multimedia development at the University of Oklahoma. In particular, the strategy used to teach the courseware is discussed with a brief review of common problems in conducting such a course. The paper also examines the software tools and hardware that is used to teach the students. A brief overview of the software tools for authoring and editing different media types is presented, along with hardware issues. In summary, student responses and examples of student projects are given. The overall responses were found to be positive with strong approval to the inclusion of student projects.