The earlier system of education was learning books or teaching through books and it has several limitations: like, it was not possible for the school children to visit sites due to variety of constraints, and the main constraint being financial. In this type of teaching process the main and the basic thing is the text book, in which the content of the subject are presented in a linear manner and the learner follow s the charted course. For this type of education you have to particularly go for the classes.
But now multimedia has become an important part of the education all over the world. Multimedia has enormous potential from the point self-based learning. It is an independent complementary tool for enhancing the learning process. In this type of education you don’t have to go particularly in a class room. Through multimedia learner is exposed to a variety of information which helps learner in clearly understanding the particular subject.
Multimedia involves five basic type of media for learning such as text, video, sound, graphic and animation. And these entire components combined together and make education more successful. Education through multimedia benefits to students as well as teacher also.
Advantage of Education through multimedia
With the help of multimedia students are better able to understand the topic that they are taught at school or colleges. Through this learning will become more effective. When multiple meaning will come for a single question, mind will easily catch the easy one. Students of primary level are so small and not so smart to understand the complicated things. But with the use of graphics, animation and sounds their understanding power will increase.
Now the majority of the learner is toward multimedia. This is because if a lecturer who is constantly speaking in front of students can make students fell bore and sleepy. But if the same content will delivered to the students through computerized system full of colorful text, animation, graphics, sounds will attract students more toward this. Multimedia gives a better opportunity to the student to learn in a better way.
Therefore multimedia is the best option for learning today. It is more effective than traditional educations
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