Multimedia Use in Classrooms: What Students Like and Dislike
Abstract: Thanks to the rapid development of computer technology, multimedia technology has become more and more affordable and accessible. In the past decade, colleges and universities are renovating classrooms into multimedia-ready classrooms, and more instructors bring their laptops and LCD/DLP projectors into classrooms to enhance their instruction. This brief paper will analyze the results of a student survey on multimedia use in classrooms in a small liberal arts college in the United States. The list of what students like and dislike about multimedia use should be useful to instructors who plan to use or have already used multimedia in their classrooms. The survey results also provide helpful information for instructional technology offices involved in upgrading traditional classrooms into multimedia-ready classrooms.