Why use multimedia guide

Increasingly, staff are looking for ways they can use video, audio and multimedia to enhance their teaching materials. Students, too, look for opportunities to use digital skills in their work, for example creating video, podcasts, infographics or animations.

Multimedia is a broad term for combining multiple media formats. Whenever text, audio, still images, animation, video and interactivity are combined together, the result is multimedia. Slides, for example, are multimedia as they combine text and images, and sometimes video and other types.This guide will explain the facilities and tools available to staff.

Multimedia resources can be a great benefit to your teaching, to complement lectures, discussions, and readings. Multimedia resources can be effectively used to:

• Increase student engagement and interest in a topic, for example, with a video/documentary introducing an issue, as opposed to an additional reading.
• Teach complex material in a visual way, which can aid understanding.
• Video and/or audio messages that you create can personalise the learning experience for students.
• Multimedia can be more accessible to students with learning differences and disabilities.