DESIGNING AND PRODUCING MULTIPLE LANGUAGE MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE

Abstract

Multimedia courseware packages are considerably enhanced by the inclusion of moving images and animations. The cost of making such images is, however, very high. Rather than each group or country making its own images, i.e. “re-inventing the same wheel”, it makes better economic sense to re-cycle existing images. The work of a dual language project team towards designing and producing multimedia resources in a number of languages is described. For example, the series of twenty dual-language CD-ROMs entitled “Le bon geste pratique en Chimie/Practical Laboratory Chemistry”. The work opens up a wide range of possibilities for customizing resources from an “originating language” into any other language. [Chem. Educ. Res. Pract.: 2003, 4, 77-82]