ABSTRACT
Multimedia in e-learning offers significant potential in enhancing the learning environment, through helping to widen access to education, enhancing the learning experience and supporting multiple learning styles (Thornhill et al., 2002; Littlejohn, 2003). As availability, capability and affordability of technology (hardware and software) improves, teachers have increased opportunity to create and use multimedia in curriculum design. For example, video and audio recordings and photographs could be used to capture and convey real-world experiences and events, whether from the past or in real time. Animated interactive diagrams could be used to demonstrate and simulate concepts in many different disciplines, allowing students to study effects over time or as the result of changing specific parameters.
