The Effectiveness of Multimedia Educational Software for 3rd year Students at Department of Education Technology, Mansoura University

Students of Applied Arts study courses of scientific & educational photography that concentrate on designing multimedia software and how to use it in education. Also, students of education technology study educational multimedia course. Educational multimedia has great potentials to ease students’ comprehension and keep them active, as it stimulates their senses of hearing and seeing and make them interact with the subject containing multimedia. Multimedia includes texts, graphics, maps, infographics, teacher’s sound illustration, music and sound effects that provide suitable atmosphere for understanding topics of the study.

The researcher suggests that the best way to convince students of education technology with the effectiveness of multimedia, is to teach them this technology by using multimedia software produced by them. Through using educational multimedia software, student teachers will discover by themselves the value of the course they study, and will be fully trusted in something they learn to deliver in the market.

The software included theoretical information as well as skills that students should acquire to produce instructional software. 3rd year students at department of education technology, who study instructional multimedia course were the sample of the study and were divided into control and experimental groups. After applying the pretest, training was applied on the experimental group and the posttest was conducted on the two groups to examine the skills acquired through the practical test to measure the skills of operating various multimedia software to be merged in one software. The posttest also examined the degree of proficiency and mastering skills of operating the program and the accomplishment speed of in the specific time of the posttest. Through statistical analysis of posttest results, the practical experiment approved that the software is effective in increasing students’ achievement of theoretical information and concepts as well as practical performance. The marks of experimental group increased by 500%.