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Practical Considerations for Multimedia Courseware Development: An EFL IVD Experience

Overview Well grounded theoretical motivation for technological innovations should always lead CALL courseware development. Second language acquisition theories and practices, instructional design concepts, human factors research, and advances in educational technology can be relevant. However, the how-to aspects of courseware development, especially for the most popular star- multimedia, become immediate considerations and concerns once one chooses the platform on which to proceed. This paper addresses these practical aspects through the exploration of the development of a piece of English as a foreign language (EFL) interactive videodisc (IVD) courseware.

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Publisher	Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	July 2003	Downloads	33
Format	White Papers
Topics	Courseware, Multimedia

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