Multimedia new learning technology of today. (c1995)

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.