Improve teaching and learning: comparison between web pages and multimedia-interactive systems

The education field is in a process of change driven by new developments in multimedia technology, which is being used as a complementary-alternative for teaching purposes. This paper describes an exploratory study comparing the effect of using two different teaching approaches: Web pages and multim...

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Published inCommunications of the IIMA Vol. 9; no. 2; p. 11
Main Authors Andrade, Estela Lizbeth Murioz, Reynoso, Juan Manuel Gomez
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Bernadino International Information Management Association 01.04.2009
Subjects
Comparative analysis
Education
Educational aspects
Educational materials
Educational technology
Experiments
Interactive computer systems
Interactive learning
Learning strategies
Management
Mathematics
Methods
Multimedia
Multimedia communications
Students
Studies
Teaching
Teaching methods
Technology application
Web sites
Mexico
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ISSN1543-5970
1941-6687

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Summary:The education field is in a process of change driven by new developments in multimedia technology, which is being used as a complementary-alternative for teaching purposes. This paper describes an exploratory study comparing the effect of using two different teaching approaches: Web pages and multimedia-interactive systems. The objective is to find out whether the use of a multimedia-interactive system delivers better outcomes in teaching complex subjects (data structures) than Web pages approach. Descriptive statistics results show that there are significant differences in students' performance that used multimedia. We found out that, specifically in this study the multimedia tool improves the learning of binary trees. It is concluded that multimedia can effectively be used to help students learn binary trees.
ISSN:1543-5970
1941-6687