Title :
Multimedia elements contributing to the technical subject instruction
Author :
Bilek, Martin ; Machkova, Veronika ; Rohal, Andrej ; Simonova, Ivana
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Abstract :
The paper deals with the research in the field of technical subject instruction. The research was divided into two parts. First, the pedagogical experiment ran following the “pre-test - instruction - post-test” structure providing comparison of students´ knowledge defined by the level of test scores. The process of instruction either includes multimedia elements within the phase of explanation, or the explanations are mostly presented in the verbal form only. Second, the questionnaire monitoring the instruction was applied to show students´ attitudes towards implementing the multimedia elements in the process. Despite the results did not prove significant differences in the test scores, students´ positive attitudes towards the multimedia elements were discovered, which contributes substantially to the motivation to learning, as minimum.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; human factors; multimedia computing; motivation; multimedia element; pedagogical experiment; pretest-instruction-post-test structure; technical subject instruction; Educational institutions; Materials; Monitoring; Multimedia communication; Streaming media; Visualization; engineering education; multimedia supported lectures; pedagogical experiment; questionnaire; technical subjects teaching;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Marrakech
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1457-2
Electronic_ISBN :
2165-9559
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201081