In this article, Courts & Tucker speak of the existence of various technologies available in the college classroom, and the difficulties instructors face implementing these initiatives in their lesson. They review different technological tools such as animation, slideshows, blogging, instant messaging, podcasting, and video on demand. The entire article is written to promote the usage of multimedia in the classroom. The primary audience for this article would be instructors who lack technological literacy. Post reading this article, it is assumed that one should be able to apply basic multimedia tools to enhance their college classroom experience.
Academic Work Online
They provided insightful information regarding the ample amount of high quality academic work available online.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers free lecture notes, exams, assignments and solutions, and even online textbooks via open courseware, for anyone to view without registration and at no cost.
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (Merlot) is a free online community of resources with over 28,000 learning materials for review, including art, science and humanities (http:www.merlot.org).
- Other sites include: videlolectures.net, Ted.com, and Stanford Universities Entrepreneurship corner, which offer videos, podcast and lectures pertaining to all kinds of different topics with a click of a mouse. Flatworld Knowledge (www.flatworldknowledge.com) offers free open source college textbooks online which contain interactive media elements for instructors or students.
THE SUPER HIGHWAY
Courts and Tucker refer to the world's increasing internet usage as, "The Super Highway." The article provided stats from the Internet world stats (www.internet worlstats.com) in which is stated the following information reflecting the year 2010:
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Percentage
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U.S. population used the Internet
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77.4%
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College students consider themselves frequent
Internet users
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86%
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College students report they are using multimedia
while on the Internet
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76%
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Cloud Computing
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Multimedia
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The delivery of
information technology over the Internet that allows just in time (jit)
access to technology
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Allows students and instructors to become engaged in their learning, increase comprehension of abstract concepts, and increase interest and motivation
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Webmail services: Gmail
Social Network Services: Facebook
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Animation, text, audio, video, slideshows, podcasts
instant messaging, and simulations
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Overall, this article encourages its audience to stay abrupt with the changing world around as both; students and educators. Learning to assimilate these technologies into the classroom experience is often interesting for both parties (educators and students).
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