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This volume investigates the use of multimedia technology in education. Most of the readers will have been educated by traditional education tools: the blackboard, textbooks, classes and teachers. Modern technology offers a different way of looking at how children can be educated. It is possible that pupils could learn from home via a computer and there would be no need for teachers and classrooms. This book aims to provide a better understanding of the problems and mechanisms that determine the uptake of multimedia in education, and shows what should be done in order to make use of technology in education in a useful way.

Índice: Part I Conceptual framework: introduction; multimedia in education; social learning. Part II Case studies: multimedia and education as a marketing strategy; learning in cable-school - the use of networked ICTs in an educational context; from "Spice-Girls" to cybergirls - the role of multimedia in the construction of young girls fascination for and interest in computers; distance teaching on Bornholm; teaching transformed? the appropriation of multimedia in education - the case of Norway; a project adrift - mechanisms of multimedia innofusion in education; telepoly - the risk of creating high-end expectatio... Etc.