Many companies already have sources of videos that they would like to integrate with a course. You can integrate many types of multimedia into a web course. Here are some of our recommendations for deploying multimedia:
Streaming video is a technology similar to TV where the video is sent over the Internet or your company's Intranet.
Videos are an excellent tool to visually explain a specific task or how a specific task works.
- Video needs large bandwidth (high speed data transfer lines) to be received by a student in a reasonable amount of time.
- It is best to break movies into short (one to two minute) segments. By four minutes most people have stopped watching a video.
- We recommend that you turn your videos into Flash files.
Flash is supported across most browsers while video formats like mpeg is not.
- Many companies do not support video formats on employees computers since they don't want employees watching TV or visiting sites like UTube while at work.
- Flying bullets are not multi-media. They might work well in and instructor led presentation. It is highly frustrating to wait for a bullet to fly onto the page in order to read the information being presented.
Tip The goal is to provide students with quality easy-to-use training material. Don't get caught up in the "flash" of multimedia. Use multimedia prudently to make the course more effective.
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