Multimedia Enhanced Educational Products as a Tool to Promote Critical Thinking in Adult Students.

From: Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: ELLIS, TIMOTHY J. | Copyright information

The promise of multimedia as a tool for enhancing learning is indeed intoxicating. The prospect of actively engaging learners through multiple communication channels is, intuitively, very compelling as a means of facilitating learning for a larger percentage of our students. This enthusiasm must, however, be tempered by two sobering facts: there is little scientific evidence in support of the value of multimedia as an enhancement to a learning environment; the cost of multimedia pr...

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