Multimedia will have potential power as an utmost tool at the field of education in the information society. Multimedia is making use of man's recognition theory on a vast scale. It can deliver many forms of information under the control of computer a...
Multimedia will have potential power as an utmost tool at the field of education in the information society. Multimedia is making use of man's recognition theory on a vast scale. It can deliver many forms of information under the control of computer and it has also peculiarities which can save and carry nature-existing shapes almost like original. Therefore it is appropriate up-to-date educational media that structuralize, conceptualize, shape man's knowledge.
To accept education demanded in the information society, letters, sounds, pictures, animation, moving images, various kinds of learning materials, or something should be offered according to learners' demands and needs, and abundant information infra should be done with learners' wanting ways of explanation and ways of contents-deploying. When instructors teach students on the spot, many contents should be given to design teaching contents with variety. Especially handy, standardized, instructional authoring tools which can tie various kinds of contents together should be developed.
Thus, the purpose of this paper is that, if teachers have their own knowledge of their major subjects in order to design multimedia teaching-plan easily, multimedia teaching-plan with a database driven management system should be projected and constructed, and the educable authoring tool(designing teaching-program) should be embodied with both standardized, intellectual presentation and an authoring tool for educational materials. Here in this paper the embodied educable authoring tool is called 'Pestalozzi 2000'.
Pestalozzi 2000 is a job-aid instructional design program. The Pestalozzi was originally designed as an automated presentation tool that makes teachers feel comfortable in building and managing multimedia materials. With this system, teachers are apt to classify, search and retrieve multimedia resources stored in a database. In addition, Pestalozzi's templates help teachers organize text and audio/video clips in elaborated sequences relevant to their teaching plans. Our system is thus characterized as a multimedia presentation tool with a database-driven management system. Pestalozzi is especially suited for teachers' direct presentations of multimedia materials, using devices such as TVs or projectors in the classrooms. The final part of this paper presents how to modify the ongoing system in the future.