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Increasing Awareness on Using Multimedia in Education 鈥 Barbara Watson
Barbara Watson started her presentation by noting that the use of multimedia in teaching is,of course,just one aspect of the wider issue of the effective use of IT in Higher Education.
In encouraging use of multimedia in teaching,there are 3 main issues:
• cost reliable equipment is very expensive
• awareness -鈥 lecturers will make effective use of the technology if they are aware of its potential and trained in its use
• training ongoing and intensive training programmes are needed
Lack of awareness is a major problem for many academic staff who may not be fully appreciative of the educational potential of IT when appropriately used,or of CAL applications which may be available.Even if they are aware of the potential,they may not have reliable access to suitable lecture theatre facilities or sufficient support to feel fortable with making use of facilities available.Barbara noted that few lecturers watched other staff teaching and that this could prove a useful training method.The use of IT at conferences is being more mon (though not always better!) and this may be an additional incentive to staff to use presentation technology.
Staff need support within institutions from:
• educational technologists to advise on the evaluation of IT materials and the integration of IT within the curriculum.
• trainers -鈥 to train academics how to use the equipment confidently and to be able to set equipment up in 10 minutes.They need to be shown the pros and cons of different types of equipment.The training needs to be ongoing to ensure confidence is maintained and knowledge kept up-to-date.
• technicians to ensure the equipment functions,is reliable and works when it is meant to.
Teaching staff need to make decisions about whether they will develop their own materials or use existing systems.
For presentations do-it-yourself is clearly appropriate and there are many tools and an emerging set of experience of good practice.Software tools such as PowerPoint,authoring packages such as ToolBook and HTML editors such as Netscape Gold offer suitable technology for putting together a presentation.All allow inclusion of text,images and video and presenters should be using the technology to good effect if the end result is to be an improvement on s