Students and Graduates Learn Library Educational Content from Interactive Multimedia Tutorials

From Educational Multimedia to "Global Digital Library" Development: Convergence of Technology, Content, and International Collaboration

Multimedia technology has shown its promises for educational applications at all levels of academic institutions as well as business settings for sometime, long before the Internet and World Wide Web have become commonplace. Then, in recent years, particularly the last half decade, we have witnessed how the Internet has changed our world in every conceivable aspect -everything from how we commu...

Medianeum: Crafting Interactive Timelines from Multimedia Content

The MEDIANEUM project consists in an interactive installation allowing an audience to explore a timeline and access informational data such as texts, images and video. Through a Microsoft Kinect depth sensor, users’ skeletons are captured and their gestures are tracked to interact with the data presented on a screen, made using Processing for faster prototyping, This part of the workflow is bei...

Characteristics and content of medical library tutorials: a review.

Quantifying the effectiveness of interactive tutorials in medical library instruction.

The goal of this study was to determine whether a passive or an interactive tutorial design improves understanding of key concepts, as measured by pre- and post-test data. The authors also collected data regarding the participants' preference for taking an interactive versus a passive tutorial. The interactive tutorial group improved statistically significantly from pre-test to post-test for al...

Interactive Multimedia in Library and Information Services

Only a few years ago, David Clark used the term "twenty-first century books" to express his optimistic view of the future of interactive videodisc technology. [1] Talking about twenty-first century books today, we certainly need to look at the more recent members of the optical media family, some of which have already entered the marketplace or will do so in the very near future. These media wi...