Multimedia-Video for Learning

TL;DR

This paper discusses the role of multimedia videos in online learning, emphasizing their potential to create engaging, accessible, and effective educational content using free digital platforms.

Contribution

It highlights the importance of multimedia videos in online education and reviews how free platforms facilitate the creation of engaging multimedia content for learners.

Findings

Multimedia videos enhance online learning engagement.

Free platforms enable easy creation of multimedia educational content.

Videos help overcome barriers in online teaching and learning.

Abstract

Multimedia engages an audience through a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, or interactivity-based content formats. Along this vein, free platforms have been seen to allow budding enthusiasts to create multimedia content. For example, Google sites (Wee, 2012b) offer creative opportunities in website development that enable text insertion, still image, video and animation embedding, along with audio and hyper-interactive links to simulations (Christian & Esquembre, 2012; Wee, 2013; Wee, Goh, & Chew, 2013; Wee, Goh, & Lim, 2013; Wee, Lee, Chew, Wong, & Tan, 2015). This chapter focuses on the video aspect of multimedia, which can be positioned as a component to any effective self-paced on-line lesson that would be available anytime, anywhere via computer or mobile devices. The multimedia video approach aims to help users overcome barriers in creating engaging, effective and meaningful content (Barron & Darling-Hammond, 2008) for teaching and learning in an online environment.