MULTIMEDIA, INTERACTIVE ELEMENT AND HOW TO EVALUATE MULTIMEDIA

What is Multimedia?

-A product that uses a combination of images, words and sounds to present information.

IMAGES WITH TEXTS

Multimedia is now commonplace and can be used for a variety of reasons, including:
•e-learning purposes (education)
•entertainment
•promotional and advertising purposes
•e-publications
•modelling and simulation
•public information

What is interactive elements?

Interactive elements in your Web site include such features as contact forms, appointment calendars, chat rooms, discussion forums (also called message boards), and order forms. At the simplest level, an interactive form can be used to collect information—for example, the visitor's name, email address, and topic of interest—and then mail that information to you automatically. At the most complex level, interactive elements such as online payment processing and shopping carts can handle some of the most demanding needs your customers may have.

How to evaluate multimedia materials?

Interactive in Web Form

Evaluation instrument is  a  tool to support evaluation of  multimedia  learning resources.  It  is designed for eliciting  ratings  and  it  can  be available  as both  a digital  form (web form, software) 

 and  printable  document (grid, questionnaire, etc).

Printable materials

The structure of the instrument that we propose to
use to evaluate the quality of digital learning resources is designed to easy use. It is developed using specific vocabulary to avoid multiple interpretations. The  specific  criteria  included  in this  structure  are  grouped  under  four  main  headings  : pedagogical  quality aspect, didactic quality aspect, technical quality aspect and academic quality aspect. The criteria are intended to encourage evaluators to think critically about the resource and evaluate some of its more detailed aspects. The criteria are not listed in order of importance, which will                                                              vary according to the resource and its intended use.

Conclusions

Technology element such as the multimedia is something that we access when we start our computer or even hand phone every day to transmit information via virtual realm to other people. Most likely nowadays the multimedia are interactive to use such as the online banking, social media and filling out the online survey. On the other hand, non-interactive multimedia is usually kept for personal use for the user to modify, adding or deleting things from the multimedia. In addition, the evaluation of multimedia can be consist of printable materials and web form applications. 

References :

-https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260392089_How_to_evaluate_the_quality_of_digital_learning_resources [accessed Sep 24, 2017].

-http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=23286&seqNum=4

-http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/dida/multimedia/productsrev3.shtml