2020 is a special year for the world, and most people’s lifestyles have changed because of COVID-19. More and more network assignments and network meetings appear in people’s lives. Whenever we mention interactive or multimedia learning, we will first think about online teaching. But in fact, before the health crisis, online teaching was not popularized, and most students went to school to study. The field of multimedia learning is more in the area of communication and entertainment media. Like Facebook, YouTube and Instagram are well-known interactive or multimedia applications.

 

The teaching method should not be immutable, from the word of mouth in ancient times, to the later classroom book teaching, to the later PPT presentation. Learning methods have always been changing with the development of technology. With the development of multimedia, online teaching can be said to be the one important way in the future, even now.

 

For students, text teaching is inherently boring, and multimedia teaching can attract more students’ attention. There is an article indicating people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone, which can be called the multimedia principle (as cited in Mayer, 2017). Whether it is pictures, videos, games or interactive questions and answers, it can be better displayed through multimedia teaching. In my personal experience, I love reading, from books to kindle to audiobooks. This is an example to show how can multimedia change our daily life. The benefits are obvious, which is also the necessity of multimedia development.

 

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