Multimedia Courseware Design and Production Tutorial

Author: Yuan Haidong et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: For a long time, many people have had a misunderstanding about media courseware, thinking that multimedia courseware is just slides, and computer-assisted instruction is simply using computers to play slides. When creating courseware, teachers tend to use the simple and easy-to-implement slide format, leading to a widespread phenomenon of "emphasizing demonstration and neglecting interaction." As a result, whether it's highly practical courses or courses with strong theoretical foundations, they are all uniformly made into slides. This book takes the new versions of these three tools as the medium to explain in detail the techniques of multimedia courseware creation. It is divided into four parts. The first part mainly introduces the basics of multimedia courseware, covering fundamental knowledge, production steps, common tools, and how to process and handle commonly used multimedia materials. The second part explains how to use Flash MX 2004 to create courseware. The third part introduces how to use Authorware 7 to create courseware. The fourth part explains how to use PowerPoint 2003 to create courseware. Starting from the current state of modern information technology application among China's teaching staff, this book uses the most popular new versions of courseware creation tools to provide a detailed explanation of multimedia courseware creation techniques. The content is comprehensive, specific, and easy to understand, making it an ideal training manual for media courseware creation that is quick to learn and skillful to use. This book can help a broad range of teachers learn to create multimedia courseware suitable for various classrooms with ease, fundamentally improving teaching effectiveness and facilitating student self-directed learning.