d. Instructional Media Selection
Among many types of media which are available, teachers should carefully choose the most appropriate one based on some considerations. Strauss
and Frost 1999 in Seth 2009: 26 propose nine key factors which should be considered in selecting media. They are:
a institutional resource constraints b course content appropriateness
c learner characteristics d professional attitudes and skill levels
e course learning objectives f learning relationship
g learning location h time synchronous vs. asynchronous
i media richness level Furthermore, Reiser and Dick 1996 in Seth 2009 state three criteria in
selecting the good instructional media. They are: 1 Practicality
The practicality includes the availability of the media, cost efficiency, and time efficiency.
2 Students appropriateness It is about to see whether the intended media are appropriate for the
developmental and experimental levels of the students or not.
3 Instructional appropriateness It includes three main points, which are:
a the appropriateness of media for the planned instructional strategy; b the efficiency and effectiveness manner offered by the media;
c whether the media will facilitate the students acquisition of specific learning objective or not.
6. Interactive Multimedia
a. The Definition
Richards and Schmidt 2002: 345 explain multimedia as the use of several different types of media for a single purpose, e.g. as in a video that uses
film, audio, sound effects, and graphic images. They also add that multimedia is a collection of computer controlled or computer mediated technologies that enables
people to access and use data in a variety of forms: text, sound, and still and moving images. Vaughan 2008: 1 says that multimedia becomes interactive
when the users of multimedia application can control what and when some parts of the application contents will be delivered. Added to this, lesson on CAI
Computer-Assisted Instruction materials may involve a question on the computer, a response from students, the feedback from computer telling the
students if the answer is “correct”. In CAI, such activities are said to be “interactive” Richards and Schmidt, 2002: 265
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