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At the information age, multimedia has been used in many aspects of daily life, including the teaching of ideological and political theories course in universities. It helps to stimulate students’ initiatives and to convert teachers’ teaching techniques. However, some problems appear in such an application, such as teachers’ over-dependence on multimedia, inappropriately handling tremendous and complex information, improper recognition of multimedia and unclear target of multimedia teaching. Therefore, the multimedia teaching needs to be promoted by combining with teaching goals, contents and other teaching techniques so as to improve education quality of ideological and political theories course of universities.Ideological and political theories course of universities aims to educate students with ideological and political theories and Marxism, and contributes to build correct outlooks on life, world and value of students. The teaching methods must be modified for the purpose of advancement of this course. And multimedia teaching refers to make classes more lively and active by processing words, pictures and videos in order to encourage students’ initiatives for learning. Multimedia’ Role in the Teaching of Ideological and Political Theories Course of Universities Characterized by interaction and integration, multimedia offers technical support for creating an active class environment by making teaching content more vivid and visual. It decreases students’ learning difficulties and helps them to absorb and digest related knowledge, which means that it plays a very important role in cultivation of students’ understanding and practices. How multimedia works in teaching ideological and political theories is shown as following: It is said that interest is the beginning of success. For students, the improvement of teaching effects largely relies on their interests in ideological and political theories. Their interests are directly associated with grades and teachers’ teaching goals. Traditionally, students learn from teachers’ instruction about abstract theories. It may be uneasy for students to understand, and if students cannot understand or think this course boring, their interest will lose soon and thus increasing teachers’ teaching difficulties. However, multimedia breaks such boring class modes by transforming tedious theories into vivid pictures, songs and videos, which actually arouse students’ interests and attention. In addition, it frees teachers from blackboard writing and provides more opportunities for teacher-student interaction. At this point, students will have higher participation and much more learning initiatives. The reform of ideological and political theories course has greatly changed teachers’ role, not only as a knowledge initiator, but as a designer, guider and organizer of ideological and political theories course . The advancement of course reform needs teachers to adjust their instilling teaching methods. For ideological and political theories course, teachers should substitute the 2nd International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology (ICEMET 2016) © 2016. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 378 traditional modes of introducing and listening with heuristic modes, and let students be involved and be the master of classes. The interaction feature of multimedia teaching greatly arouses students’ desire to involve in classes in which they not only obtain the knowledge, but practice their capabilities of operation and thinking. For example, the problems situation of multimedia teaching increases interaction between teachers and students, enriches teaching content, arouses students’ initiatives and modifies their learning approaches. Its application breaks empty, dull teaching environment with creating a multi-dimensional and dynamic learning and teaching atmosphere, in which students consistently immerse themselves into a positive, active, practical and cooperative learning mode. Curriculum reform of universities requires and aims at promoting teaching effects of ideological and political theories course. With employing multimedia, much more knowledge and information will presented during same class hours. It is totally different from traditional teaching mode, which requires teachers to do blackboard writing and explaining the textbook at the same time. Such a timeand energy-consuming way does not meet the needs of curriculum reform. But multimedia teaching corrects its imperfections by utilizing videos, pictures and other materials. And teachers can know current events from the multimedia so as to combine it with theories timely. It enriches teaching content, and frees teachers from repeated and boring works. Besides, multimedia teaching makes dull theories live and interesting by simplifying complex and difficult knowledge, which is useful for students to grasp and understand. In that way, students are more interested in learning ideological and political theories course, and thus achieving the goals of curriculum reform. Problems of Multimedia Technology in Teaching Ideological and Political Theories Course of Universities Every coin has two sides, so does multimedia technology. As important it is in teaching ideological and political theories course of universities, some problems cannot be ignored and wait to be solved. They are shown as following. Multimedia teaching requires organic combination of multimedia technology and teaching goals, content and methods, instead of simple addition of the technology and the course . Some teachers think that multimedia teaching is to teaching with computer courseware. In fact, it is only one part of lessons preparation. Teachers should organically combine materials and teach interactively and directly based on teaching principles and requirements. Meanwhile, there also are problems in making and using coursewares since teachers download and buy them indiscriminately. These coursewares are not targeted and thus lower teaching qualities. And teachers cannot take full advantage of multimedia functions as a result of their incapability of mastering multimedia technology. The ideological and political theories course of universities intends to guide students to think positively and build proper outlooks on life, world and values. However, some teachers pay much attention on information transferring and course progress, and regard ideological and political theories course as video and pictures presentation, which go against the nature of classes teaching to some extent that essentially is information exchanging process and teacher-student interaction. In addition, the pursuit of information will cause students negatively receive too much things without understanding and thinking. At the same time, under the environment full of videos and pictures, students have difficulties in forming a systematic and complete line of knowledge which harms their future development. That is to say, too much information makes teaching goals unclear and weakens students’ dominant position, and hence adversely affecting teaching quality. Multimedia teaching is rigorous and tight. If teachers rely on multimedia too much and teach

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