Welcome to the Multimedia Course : Design Issues
OER initiative for Building Collabrative Learning for Multimedia
Definition
Authoring tools are programs that helps you write hypertext or multimedia applications. They usually enable creation of a final application by linking together objects, such as a paragraph of text, an illustration, or music,audio,video,animation. Most authoring systems also support a scripting language for more sophisticated applications. Authoring tools require less technical knowledge to master and are used exclusively for applications that present a mixture of textual, graphical, and audio data i.e Multimedia Creation. Authoring systems vary widely in features, functionality, look and feel, and learning capabilities of the user. Most of the authoring systems require some basic knowledge of heuristic thinking and algorithm design.
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The Main features of authoring tools are:
Use of different pedagogical approaches
Use of Self Test Features (Multiple Choice, Match the following, Fill in the blanks, True False) and feedback on learning
Integrated Multimedia Elements (Text, audio, video,animation)
Have Menu for Navigation (Home, Next , previous page)
Script language programs (Action Scripts for time lines, actions related to mouse movement)
GUI(Graphic User Interface ) or Icon based programs
DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) for extending features
Supporting CD-ROM, SCORM,HTML
Supporting Video , Audio, Google docs, YouTube embedding
Hypertext for inter-linkages
Cross-Platform Capability on different Operating Systems
Built-in Run time Players.
Welcome to the Course !
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