Abstract:
Today with each successive generation people can expect
several periods of change and they must cope with them at a faster
rate of imposition. The pace of change is accelerating. Under these
conditions, the knowledge and skills gained yesterday will no longer
be sufficient to equip a person for a lifetime. They are only
appropriate for a short period of time before becoming obsolete.
They must therefore develop a new training system. They
should be moving away from the traditional method of transmitting
knowledge and, instead should be helping people to learn. Adopting
multimedia training method is an effective tool to train people and
make them understand and learn quickly.
In this research the importance of computer-assisted training
are presented and the various kinds of training are listed. As a
powerful and effective training tool, multimedia technology has a
great part of this research. The meaning of multimedia as well as its
elements and applications are also presented and defined to highlight
its importance and ability in providing information and enrIching
knowledge.
To show the effectiveness of adopting multimedia technology in
training, an experiment was applied on two groups of subjects. Each
group was asked to answer questionnaires, solve different problems,
then they were asked to answer two different kinds of evaluation
forms. After this experiment some statistical models were applied on
the collected data to end up with a conclusion stating that
multimedia is a new and powerful tool to teach and train people.
