Online Multimedia Educational Application for Teaching Multimedia Contents: An Experiment with Students in Higher Education

Abstract

This chapter describes an experiment undertaken with higher education level students, which consists of utilizing an online multimedia educational application as an aid in teaching organizational multimedia. This course is taught to fourth year students at the Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais (Higher School of Management Sciences, Setúbal, Portugal), where the first author teaches. This chapter also describes the educational software model used for the planning, development and evaluation of the above-mentioned application. This model is the result of the integration of the model presented in the first author’s Master’s thesis with methods, methodologies and guidelines proposed by others. As for the resulting application, the manner in which it was applied and its evaluation are also presented in this document. The results obtained are then interpreted and future developments proposed.