Research in educational multimedia shows many benefits of learning with the
use of multimedia environments. To take advantage of these benefits we dev
eloped multimedia assisted teaching environment (MATE), which is being trie
d in supporting our teaching of information technology (IT) subjects, MATE'
s main strength is its ability to facilitate reuse of multimedia components
while developing teaching material. In this paper, MATE is described from
the perspective of a student learning systems analysis and design ria proje
cts and case studies. The workings of the MATE tool is illustrated with an
example that shows our approach to teaching design skills with reusable des
ign patterns.