Abstract :
This article discussed the necessity of applications of multimedia in teaching of the course of steel structure. It also described the advantages of multimedia teaching methods through the aspects of the intuitive, dynamics, interactivity, capacity, recurrence and simulation. It also mentioned the important role of multimedia teaching mothers in helping students to think visually and to understand the concepts of mechanics. In addition, it pointed out the inadequacy of multimedia teaching and proposed the improvement measures for the multimedia courseware. By comparing multimedia teaching methods with traditional methods, the effects of teaching were analyzed from two aspects. One was the extent for the students to understand the professional subjects, and the other was the time required for teacher to introduce the subjects in the course. The results showed that teaching by use of multimedia technology could obviously improve the extent of understanding for students and considerably reduce the time required for teachers.
