A design method for educational multimedia software

摘要

We describe a design method for educational multimedia software using the principles of concurrent engineering. This requires a close collaboration between the social scientist's and the engineer's approaches and a mutual questioning at every stage of the design process. Thus we present how the educational specifications, the processing/management of data and the multimedia product itself can be developed as well as the relationships each step has with the others. We also take a detailed look at the effect of introducing multimedia tools in education. Our general design method is then applied to the on-going realization of a specific multimedia project.