Orientation | Schedule | Assignment and Evaluation | ResourcesModule One Overview
Getting to know the course and classmates
As you prepare for this module, you may want to spend a couple of minutes with the instructor to refresh your thinking.
Words from Instructor (TranscriptionPDF file)
In Module One, we will talk about
What is multimedia courseware for language learning?
1. What is multimedia?
- Types of media and their weakness and strength
- The importance of computer
- Skills to use media on computer-based courseware
- The important terms such as information process, storage, synchronous playback, and other multimedia related presentation techniques that are invented during the last two decade.
2. What is courseware for language learning?
- What are the main characteristics of language learning courseware: they are digitized and they are designed for language learning.
3. Multimedia courseware design
- The main concerns for digitized appearance : user interface and teaching strategies.
- The relationship between courseware design and goals of the course.
- The importance of organizing the content structurally.
- The general guidelines for interface and graphic design and the good and bad in courseware design.
Types of courseware for language learning
By characteristics of content:
- General reading
- Courseware
- Test preparing
- Reference
By type of packaging:
- Web page (on-line; possible for more additional content)
- CD (off-line; self-contained)