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Producing professional interactive multimedia: project management issues
Author(s) -
Canale Ric,
Wills Sandra
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1995.tb00126.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , activity based costing , computer science , project management , product (mathematics) , interactive media , engineering management , business , multimedia , marketing , management , economics , finance , engineering , geometry , mathematics
This paper presents a case study of the development of a multimedia training product for broad distribution to middle and senior management as well as university students. It compares anticipated and actual costs of project management and where possible makes comparisons with data from similar projects. An unexpected finding was a greater than twofold overrun on the anticipated costs of project management. The greater part of this overrun was an increased administrative effort required to comply with reporting requirements of the funding body and the joint Venture partnership. The results of this study have implications for producers of interactive multimedia in higher education with regard to realistic costing of project management, which is often an unfunded contribution.