The design and realization of multimedia courseware for University Photography Foundation

With the development of computer technology and the popularization of computer, the tradition of the using chalk and blackboard and the way of mainly making comments by the teacher seem too stereotyped. It is inability in the mobilization of students´ positivity and activity and no longer fits the development of educational need in the present age. MCAI (Multimedia Computer Assisted Instruction), is a teaching software which uses multimedia computer to combine words, pictures, voices, animations, images and so on. It has broken through the linear constraints of conventional media. Information and knowledge can be vividly shown to the learner in a random, flexible, comprehensive and stereoscopic way. It has high knowledge intensity and great expressive force, can stimulate learners´ interests effectively, raise students´ learning efficiency, and reduce the repeated work of teachers´ and achieve a favorable result. This essay introduces the design scheme of using Authorware to make the multimedia courseware for University Photography Foundation and explains the function of the specific modules.