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Introduction to the Project |
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Extensive research has shown that active and cooperative learning has numerous advantages over the traditional lecturer format. Multimedia, any combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video delivered to you by a computer or other electronic means, has a potential for dramatic new techniques in teaching and learning. Where multimedia-learning environments are educationally effective and provide students better quality of experience than they have with traditional teaching methods, its power lies in the fact that it is multi-sensory, simulating the many senses of the audience. It is also interactive, enabling the end-users of the application to control and flow information. Today's students have grown up and accustomed to a multi-sensory environment. They expect to learn using many methods besides traditional lecture (Chalk & talk). Multimedia can help to gain and hold attention, make points clearer, stimulate discussion, and in general, enhance the learning process, if it also includes the appropriate human elements.
Multimedia is not meant to replace instructors, nor can it replace them. Multimedia has been used in the classroom for the last several decades in the form of overhead projectors, slide shows, filmstrips, and color chalk. With the advent of the computer and other electronic devices, multimedia is now being used a number of ways in the classroom including PowerPoint lectures, digital slides, digital videos, mailing lists, interactive Web sites, and more. Learning materials can be designed for interactive use by individual students, groups of students, and even students in different geographical locations.
The purpose of this project is to enhance the technological infrastructure of the university through establishing a teaching resources and multimedia center in the faculty, and to upgrade the instructors' skills to use multimedia in their lectures for better teaching and learning. Teaching recourses and multimedia center (TRMC) enhances and facilitates the teaching and learning processes. In addition to their rules in the improvement of the faculty staff teaching skills, TRMC helps students for deeper understanding of the subject matter. It is worth mentioning that TRMC saves time and money in the educational processes and at the same time makes the complicated subject matter simple to be handled for both instructors and students.
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