Provides an overview of digital video and outlines hardware and software necessary for interactive training on the World Wide Web and for videoconferences via the Internet. Lists sites providing additional information on digital video, on CU-SeeMe software, and on MBONE (Multicast BackBONE), a technology that permits real-time transmission of…

Describes digital video technology and new DVI multimedia products. Advantages of all-digital video are considered; industry standards for hardware, software, and video are discussed; data compression is explained; and software development is considered. Microcomputer standards, compressed digital video formats, and software applications supported…

Results of a two-year project (L'Italiano interattivo) conducted in collaboration with the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities to produce learner-directed Italian courseware are reported. The SuperCard-developed program allows students to work with video, exercises, grammar, dictionary, or transcripts. (Author/LB)

The effectiveness of advanced learning technologies is discussed and the concept of Just-in-Time Learning Systems with the potential of multimedia for interactive learning is advocated. Five key elements of a multimedia learning system are presented, including the use of digitized video. (LB)

Presents recent changes in the technology, expansion of courseware, and distribution to other institutions of the interactive videodisc courseware utilized as a significant part of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum at the University of Illinois since 1986. (JJK)

Describes research conducted at Lancaster University (United Kingdom) which investigated design considerations that were necessary for the development of effective interactive video (IV) courseware for management education. The advantages of a videotape-based system as opposed to videodisc are described, and technologies to minimize the drawbacks…

Describes how a university learning community curriculum model was used to produce an interactive multimedia videodisc on race. It outlines the three-course sequence during which students produced the videodiscs and reports the impact on students, faculty, and overall curriculum evaluation. The materials introduce several scenarios in which racial…

Discusses the utilization of technology to assist the educational establishment deal with change. Topics addressed include multimedia metaphors such as graphical user interfaces; interactive videodisk systems; problems with current multimedia systems; a Multimedia Sampler developed at the University of North Carolina that includes applications…

Reports on studies that analyze the impact of microcomputers in schools on student achievement as compared to more traditional methods, and explores research that relates student achievement to software design, learner characteristics, and instructional decisions on technology implementation. (17 references) (MAB)

Discusses when instructional designers, communicators, and learners should use multimedia. Outlines reasons for using sound in multimedia; discusses how to use music, voice, and animation; and describes how to reap the benefits of video for online documentation when the costs of the medium are justified. (AEF)

Describes learning strategies used by design groups at the Educational Technology Center at the University of California, Irvine, to develop interactive computer-based learning materials. Highlights include excerpts from scripts developed in project design sessions; yes-no questions and string matching; pointing input and single characteristic…

The process of developing and evaluating an interactive videodisc system to teach communication skills for community and institutional pharmacy practice settings is described. An interdisciplinary team was used to integrate therapeutics, communication theory, media design, video production, and computer programing in the software development…

Describes an interactive video program crafted to instruct beginning television production learners in the basics of directing a dramatic television scene. Topics include the development of the program, techniques used to teach scene analysis, camera staging, script marking, and the direction process.(KRN)

Reports on themes emphasized at the April 1994 Computer Game Developers Conference held in Santa Clara (California), including the exploding CD-ROM marketplace and the potential and challenge of using CD-ROM's multimedia capacity to build cinema-quality stories and characters into computer games. Strategies for introducing more complex plots are…

Discusses the stages two universities followed when developing interactive videodisc case materials for elementary school science instruction: (1) collaborating with classroom teachers; (2) videotaping classroom lessons; (3) editing the videotape; and (4) developing the hypermedia. Other components of the project include creating an instructors'…