CRIM: Curricular Resources in Interactive Multimedia1

A search of the World Wide Web for multimedia jobs, using the search terms “interactive, multimedia, and career”, indicates over 9 million pages which discuss, provide or offer placement in a career which in some way incorporates the use of Interactive Multimedia. The sites involved range in discipline coverage from medical areas to spacerelated jobs to areas of security—and all technical and business-related pathways in-between. McGee and Russell report a serious shortage of Information Technology workers by the year 2005 with the most sought after jobs requiring Internet, Java and Web-centric skills [4][5]. On the other hand, a search for courses or syllabi for materials on Interactive Multimedia (IM), using search terms of “interactive, multimedia, and syllabus” yields less than 5,000 hits. The demand is outpacing the supply.