Lesson 15

Project-based Learning and Multimedia

        A class that effectively employs project-based multimedia learning is highly animated and actively engaged. Together with other students, every student is absorbed in a task in line with the goals and objectives made clear at the start. Time has wings.

Let us know more about project-based multimedia learning in the paragraphs that follow:

       Project-based multimedia learning- is a teaching method in which students “acquire new knowledge and skills in the course of designing, planning, and producing multimedia product.

Dimensions in project-based multimedia learning  

Have seven key dimensions:

1.)               Core curriculum – at the foundation of any unit of this type is a clear set off learning goal drawn from whatever curriculum or set of standards is in use.

2.)               Real-world connection- the project seeks to connect students’ work in school with the wider world in which students live.

3.)               Extended time frame- a good project is not a one-shot lesson. It extends over a significant period of time.

4.)               Student decision making- in project-based multimedia learning, students have a say.

5.)               Collaboration- project-based multimedia learning demands collaboration. Is working together jointly to accomplish a common intellectual purpose in a manner superior to what might have been accomplished working alone.

6.)               Assessment –there are three (3) assessment concerns in project-based learning, namely: 1) activities for developing expectations: 2) activities for improving the media products.

7.)               Multimedia- students do not learn simply by using multimedia produced by others they learn by creating it themselves.

Why use project-based multimedia learning?

-           Because it is a “value added” to your teaching.

What can be some limitations of the use of project-based multimedia learning strategy?

       One limitation that we see is the need or an extended period of time. You need time to orient the students on what are expected of them, guidelines, goals and objectives of the project.