How Effective is Multimedia in Education (.pdf) . This artice (on Kevin Kruse's site) offers a critique on the effectiveness of adding multimedia in education. Like everything else, a tool performs a task...when the task is properly matched to the tool, it works well. When mismatched, it doesn't. Multimedia is very effective for certain learning activities (and certain learning styles - a consideration the article doesn't explore), but it can also be very ineffective for other learning tasks.
Posted by gsiemens at October 27, 2003 01:30 PM