a bstra ct   background: e-learning can increase knowledge in patients and provide an efficient way to enhance the personnel–patient interaction as well as patient - specific education materials. so, the aim of this study was to compare the effects of two methods, multimedia and illustrated booklet educational method, on primigravida women’s knowledge of prenatal care.     results: before train...

“A picture is worth more than thousand words” refers to the impression that a complex concept can be conveyed with just a single image. Multimedia-based education is a combination of interactive / non-interactive learning material with a stimulating, coherent graphics, video and animated components. When education is creative, problem based, interactive, and target based, learners always intere...

The Sacred Way project is a cooperative international initiative for multimedia education in archaeology and Classical civilisation. The project is currently supported by the European Community COMETT II programme. Planned activities include seminars and courses, intended to introduce archaeologists, museum professionals and humanities educators to the techniques and potential of digital multim...

With the advent of Information communication technology (ICT) and the growth of Internet, particularly the Web has changed the way of giving the curriculum materials to the students in online environment. Along with the print material, the materials are given in e-formats also. The online teaching tools like e-mail, discussion list, chat mode, lecture notes via web, use of computer mediated com...

This i paper describes current work on the design and implementation offintelligent multimedia tutoring modules which Nonare intended to supplement shortt training courses in destructive Inspection for the Boeing Defense and Space group.

This paper presents the use of multimedia tools in teaching engineering courses, in particular we will discuss the use of "courseware" in conducting classroom teaching for the first electrical engineering circuits course. Some of the questions and/or concerns that have been raised regarding the use of a courseware package and advantages and disadvantages of using such an approach including the ...

One of the essential principles of PC working are the algorithms, which are also the basis of the main idea of a computer. Therefore those should be a part of every kind of PC working-learning – of course in a hidden, spontaneous way. And it is not important whether the students master the basics of algorithms through the work with a text editor, internet or multimedia. The Imagine Logo environ...

The delivery of applications with both real-time and non-real-time service expectations, such as multimedia education, using the WWW has led to a new model for service provisioning. The profile of a distance learning session, including video-ondemand, is unlike any other service delivered over the WWW or a dedicated intranet. After developing several WWW-based multimedia distribution systems fo...

This paper discusses the issues in the design and development of case based multimedia in engineering education. The user's of these case studies are junior and senior engineering students in the aerospace, civil, and mechanical engineering disciplines. Of particular interest are problems dealing in vibrations and structural dynamics. Practical engineering problems are posed in which a design s...

This paper investigates the ways in which the expectations and beliefs of academic staff about computerbased learning impact the design of learning media and their integration into the student learning experience. Moreover, it aims to ascertain how these expectations and beliefs have to be negotiated in a collaborative process between academics, educational advisors and multimedia producers, so...