Course overview
Students learn the basic components of multimedia communication and how to combine them using existing tools and techniques. The course also helps students understand how to use pictures, sounds, and video clips to convey the message in the most meaningful way. At the same time, students know how to design and manage a multimedia communication project.
Participants in piloting
This is an elective course conducted to undergraduate students from the Department of Information System, Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi university. There were 51 students enrolled in Semester 1, 2019/2020 session (were divided into 2 classes). All of them were 3rd year students
Timeframe
Fall 2019.
Use of ALIEN services and tools
Students were exposed to active learning in lecture and tutorial that took place every week. There is a series of activities that will be included in the course to understand elements of multimedia, stages, and skills in making multimedia, multimedia tools, and so on. For different purposes of each tutorial, there are different activities and teaching methodologies to be used. The following are some examples:
- Students worked in group and analyze different multimedia product to see how they were used in different fields (in business, education, at home, at market places, etc)
- Review the lesson with fun and interactive games in Kahoot (https://kahoot.com/b/) or Quizlet (https://quizlet.com/latest). After having students play the game, teachers will ask students to identify the benefit of multimedia in education.
- Students play “Fonts have feeling” and present their choice of better font. This problem is published on PBL platform: https://virtual-campus.eu/alien/problems/fonts-have-feeling/
- Have students design their own font using Fontstruct (https://fontstruct.com/).
- Play Headsup game (projector required) to enhance memory of 12 principles of animation
