DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA IN EDUCATION

This paper presents firsthand experience with the development and impl ementation of interactive multimedia instructional materials for an en gineering economy course attended by 1000 engineering students over th ree years at Virginia Tech. The interactive software was developed fro m a National Science Foundation grant aimed at enhancing the undergrad uate engineering curriculum through increased emphasis on design and e conomic principles. The purpose of this paper is to describe the type of multimedia instructional materials that were developed, how they we re implemented, and, finally, to present an evaluation of the results from a survey in which the benefits of multimedia-based support materi als were assessed.