Multimedia technologies in university courses: some examples

The increasing need of education in contemporary society and the reduction of overall costs and study together with availability of powerful telecommunications and computer systems have fostered investigation and implementation of different types of technology-supported teaching and learning system. This paper describes two activities that involve the use of multimedia technologies in educational process in University. One has been developed for a first-year undergraduate course of Mathematics at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, University of Italian Switzerland. Other activity has been developed at the Department of Electronic-Politecnico of Torino in the field of computer based training in electronic instrumentation and measurements using some multimedia solutions