Multimedia Applications Red Herring? ROGER C. SCHANK, The Institute for the Learning for Education and Training: Revolution or MICHAEL Sciences, KORCUSKA, Northwestern and MENACHEM 1890 Maple JONA Avenue, Evanston, Illinois University, When considering the use of multimedia systems for education and training there is a hidden danger in the commercial juggernaut of current-generation multimedia software. This danger is that when multimedia are applied to education and training, the information-presentation paradigm that has become so strongly associated with multimedia applications will come along with it. To date multimedia systems have found their most widespread use in the presentation of information, the archetypal example being multimedia encyclopedias. The reasons for this are straightforward: multimedia technology allows richer, more varied, and more dynamic means for presenting information, along with the potential for displaying more kinds of information than was possible before. More often than not, these programs employ a page-turning architecture, so named because interacting with the systems entails pressing a button for the next page of information. In the rush to create commercial multimedia products for the educational software market, the information-presentation, page-turning paradigm will likely become the predominant underlying model for educational multimedia software. Thus flashy
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