Impact of Multimedia Use in Online GIT Classes

Abstract

Online education has become one of the most sought after education modes in recent years. The online learning environment is evolving and its main focus is to reach students at distant location. Graphic Information technology (GIT) program offered by a large public university in the Southwestern United States also offers multiple online classes for its students. The main aim of this study is to find the impact of multimedia on online GIT classes. The study tries to find out students' preferred mode of learning, shortcomings they found in the mode, and their choice of multimedia for online classes. This study also looks into the faculty's preferred mode and choice of multimedia. All the data is collected through electronic surveys designed separately for each group. The collected data helps in understanding the impact multimedia has on students' learning.