Multimedia Learning

The use of technology for learning purposes has a long history: learning machines, “programmed teaching” in book form, first implemented on mainframes and later in learning software for the PC. The development of PCs and networked multimedia systems laid the foundation necessary to develop multimedia learning software and improve the way humans learn. This chapter discusses several possibilities and side conditions for multimedia learning on the computer [Has95] [IK97] [Sch97]. Our discussion focuses on learning as a process to acquire knowledge, as depicted in Figure 8-1).