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Title: The media in multimedia for learning: differentiating form from content, technology and domain
Author(s): Doube, Wendy
Abstract: Whereas the polysemous term media is unambiguous within a single domain, multiple ambiguous interpretations can now be found in discussions of electronic convergent mass and communication media. The different interpretations of media in multimedia can be broadly classified as convergent when considering the end product, such as a news web site, or divergent when considering discrete elements, such as text, audio and video. The latter interpretation is commonly used in higher education multimedia applications. This paper revisits theories of multimedia in learning with reference to current standards for learning object metadata to produce a simple model of divergent or discrete media in multimedia. The model clearly distinguishes media form from content, technology and domain with the aim of reducing ambiguity.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA), Lisbon, Portugal, 27 June 2011, pp. 2007-2014
Publication year: 2011
Keyword(s): Higher education; Media; Multimedia
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
ISBN: 18800948904
Publisher URL: http://www.editlib.org/p/38138
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