The place of the WWW in an undergraduate multimedia degree program

Arshad Omari, Department of Library and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Bradford St, Mt Lawley 6050, Australia. Phone +619 370 6459 Fax: +619 370 2910 Email: a.omari@cowan.edu.au Home Page: Arshad Omari [HREF 2]

Abstract

Implementing the program has raised a number of important issues including, catering for individual differences among students, deciding on pre-requisite knowledge bases on which to develop course content, how to effectively deal with the need for all students to singularly demonstrate skills in interface, graphics and instructional design and the means by which students can be encouraged to maintain their skill levels in a field of ever changing technologies. We believe that multimedia development courses need to include instruction and skills development in WWW materials in all units describing authoring, instructional design, interface design and programming and that specialist unit(s) in WWW authoring are best placed earlier rather than later in a program to enable appropriate skills and understanding to be developed and anchored to a firm knowledge of this medium.