Advantages of Multimedia Technology
- Provides an alternative medium of instruction over traditional teaching methods
- Increases learning effectiveness through providing a different perspective on learning and possibly on the topics being taught
- Is more appealing over traditional, lecture-based learning methods
- Offers significant potential in improving personal communications, education and training efforts through a more interactive experience
- Is easy to use
- Provides high-quality video images & audio which leads to more in depth learning
- In the case of education, frees the teacher from routine tasks
Disadvantages of Multimedia Technology
- Expensive. These kinds of technology will not always be accessible to those who are in the lower brackets of income, therefore not making everyone a direct benefactor of Multimedia Technology.
- Not always easy to configure
- Requires special hardware. Again, relative to multimedia technology being more expensive than its less technological counterparts, special hardware is needed to utilize this technology. Audio requires a sound system, while visual media requires a visual medium such as a TV or a projector. All this is not always equally accessible to people from all walks of life.
- Not always compatible. Multimedia technology has its limits like any other medium that may be used in education or any other endeavor. Sometimes, multimedia technology cannot deliver a message which is better when delivered firsthand by, let's say, a person knowledgeable on the subject.
Source:
Aurasolution. Advantages and Disadvantages Multimedia. Retrieved October 14, 2014 from http://ihashimi.aurasolution.com/advantages_and_disadvantages_multimedia.htm.
Aurasolution. Advantages and Disadvantages Multimedia. Retrieved October 14, 2014 from http://ihashimi.aurasolution.com/advantages_and_disadvantages_multimedia.htm.