What is multimedia
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According to Waterworth (1992), multimedia is a combination of sound, music,
animation, text, video and graphics produced by computer-based technology. It's more
interesting than television or videotapes.
From the definitions, multimedia is expressed as a computer connected to a variety of
other equipment such as video disc player, compact disc player, scanner, music synthesizer,
monitor and so on. In general, it can be said that multimedia is a computer-based interactive
communication process that includes the use of text, audio, graphics and
However, in terms of education, the simplest definition for multimedia is: "A computerbased interactive communication process that includes the use of text, graphics, audio, video,
and animation".
Education through multimedia education systems are currently changing very fast.
Various new methods have been introduced and used to make teacher teaching more effective
and student learning more meaningful.
There are three common applications in multimedia development such as,
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Stand-alone interactive multimedia applications (e.g. Computer-Assisted
Learning, Learning Courseware etc.
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Internet-based applications (e.g. Web-based instructions, Web-based Learning
etc.)
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Mobile-based applications (e.g. Mobile Apps etc.)
i.
Stand-alone interactive multimedia applications
Mobile applications are consist of software/set of program that runs on a mobile device
and perform certain tasks for the user. Mobile application is a new and fast developing Segment
of the global Information and Communication Technology. Mobile application is easy, user
friendly, inexpensive, downloadable and run able in most of the mobile phone including
inexpensive and entry level phone. The mobile application has wide uses for its vast
functioning area like calling, messaging, browsing, chatting, social network communication,
audio, video, game etc In large number of mobile application some are preinstalled in phone
and others user can download from internet and install it in mobile phone. This large number
of mobile application market served by increasing no of mobile application developer,
publishers and providers. From the technical point of view the different mobile applications
are run able in different managed platforms like iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian,
windows; also some virtual machine such as Java/J2ME, BREW, Flash Light, Silverlight.