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THE COMMONWEALTH of LEARNING

Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia

Educational Multimedia
A Handbook for Teacher-Developers

Version 1.1
March 2003

THE COMMONWEALTH of LEARNING
Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia

Educational Multimedia
A Handbook for Teacher-Developers
Editors
Usha V. Reddi
Sanjaya Mishra

Version 1.1
March 2003

© CEMCA, 2003All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce the Handbook in whole or in parts may be sent to Director, CEMCA.

Contributors to the Handbook
This handbook has been prepared by a team of experts on behalf of Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, New Delhi.

Dr. Usha V. Reddi

Section 2

Dr. Sanjaya Mishra

Director, Commonwealth
Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA),
NewDelhi
Section 3
Dr. Anurag Saxena
Dy. Director, C-DET
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU),
New Delhi

Section 6, 8

Programme Officer, Commonwealth
Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA),
New Delhi

Retd. Professor of Physics
Nizam College, Osmania University,
Hyderabad

Dr. Anita Dighe

Section 4

Director, Campus of Open Learning (COL),
University of Delhi,Delhi

Dr. Madhu Parhar
Reader, Staff Training and Research
Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE)
IGNOU, New Delhi

Prof. A. Srinivasa Rao

Dr. C. B. Sharma

Section 7

Section 9

Reader, School of Education,
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU),
New Delhi
Section 5

Dr. P.R. Ramanujam
Prof. and Director, Staff Training and
Research Institute of Distance Education(STRIDE)
IGNOU, New Delhi

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Dr. Usha V. Reddi
Director,
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
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New Delhi - 110 062
Phone: +91-11-26096730, 26056965, Fax: +91-11-26085208
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ISBN: 81-88770-00-0
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Contents
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Section 1
Introduction to the Handbook

01

Section 2
Multimedia as an Educational Tool

03

Section 3
Hardwareand Software for Multimedia Development

Section 4
Understanding Our Learners

Section 5
Instructional Design for Multimedia

09
21
27

Section 6
Scripting for Multimedia

Section 7
Development of Multimedia

39
43

Section 8
Delivery of Multimedia

51

Section 9
Evaluation of Multimedia
References & Suggested Readings
Sample Questionnaires

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the Handbook

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Why this handbook?
Multimedia has always fascinated educationists because of its strengths to
communicate difficult concepts in simple ways. With the availability of more and
more sophisticated computers with multimedia capabilities, the potentialities to use
multimedia have also grown tremendously. In the case of Open and Distance
Education, which depends onself-learning materials, the use of multimedia enriches
the teaching learning experiences by providing a multi-sensory perspective. While it
has been acknowledged that multimedia can be useful in the teaching-learning
scenario of both face-to-face and distance learning settings, educators tend to
believe that development of multimedia requires knowledge of high-end
programming. This is true...