The development history of multimedia teaching equipment
A complete multimedia computer system is composed of hardware and software.
Its core is a computer, and its peripherals are mainly audio-visual and other media devices. The hardware of the multimedia system is a computer host and various input/output devices that can receive and play multimedia information, and its software is a multimedia operating system and various multimedia tool software and application software.
Multimedia teaching equipment has existed since ancient times, and teachers have been teaching with the help of text, sound, and pictures. However, in the 1980s, a variety of electronic media such as slideshows, projections, sound recordings, videos, etc. began to be used and classroom teaching. This teaching technology is also called multimedia combined teaching or audio-visual teaching. Since the 1990s, with the development of computer technology With rapid development and popularization, multimedia computers have gradually replaced the integrated use of multiple teaching media in the past.
Therefore, what we usually call multimedia teaching now refers to the process of teaching activities carried out using multimedia computers and with the help of pre-made multimedia teaching software. It can also be called computer assisted instruction (CAI).