LTEC 6210: Theory of Design of Interactive Multimedia Systems
6210: Social media in Education and Training
The article I selected was Social Media and Medical Education in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review. This article focused on medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic and how social media applications have the capabilities to deliver different educational outcomes. The conclusion of the article noted that social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,…
Keep reading6210: Gaming within Teaching & Learning
Prompt: Write about your game experience and connect it explicitly to teaching and learning, as well as principles of and research about multimedia that you are aware of to date. I would not consider myself a gamer. My game experience comes from playing Frogger on my parent’s Atari, Duke Nukem on the old family PC…
Keep reading6210: Change in Concepts & Theories
Reflection topic: For this week, write a blog entry about whether your knowledge of multimedia as a concept and the theories behind it has changed as a result of the readings and/or discussion. This should be 500-750 words. Of this week’s assigned readings, I found the Mikropoulos et al. (2011) article to be the most…
Keep reading6210: Experience in Multimedia for Learning.
Prompt: Please share your best and worst experiences (no more than 400 words) of multimedia for learning. It’s hard to imagine anyone who would be unfamiliar with eLearning and multimedia, after the COVID-19 pandemic. The pivot to emergency remote instruction forced nearly all students, teachers, and parents into the deep end of the online learning…
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