LESSON 15: PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND MULTIMEDIA: WHAT IT IS?

               Project-based multimedia learning is most of all anchored on the core curriculum. This means that project-based multimedia learning addresses the basic knowledge and skills all student are expected to acquire. A class that effectively employs project-based multimedia learning is highly animated and actively engaged. In this type of learning, it does not focus only on the use of multimedia. The students end up with a multimedia product to show what they learned. So, they are not only learners of academic content, they are at the same time authors of multimedia product at the end of the learning process.
               There are dimensions of project-based multimedia learning. And these dimensions are: 1) core curriculum, 2) real-world connection, 3) extended time frame, 4) student decision making, 5) collaboration, 6) assessment and 7) multimedia. In using the project-based multimedia learning strategy, there are also limitations. The major limitation of which is the tendency to lose track of the lesson objectives because the technology aspect has gotten the limelight. So then, in using the project based multimedia learning, we have to consider the limitations so that we can effectively use its’ benefits. Project-based multimedia learning is a “value added” to teaching. It is indeed a powerful motivation.