The plenty of multimedia data and information is challenging educators to effectively search, browse, access, use, and store the data for their classroom teaching. However, many educators could still be accustomed to teaching or searching for information using conventional methods that may not function well with multimedia data. Educators need to efficiently interact and manage a variety of digital media files too. The purpose of this study is to review current multimedia database applications usage in teaching and learning, and further discuss some of the issues or concerns that educators may faced when incorporating multimedia data into their classrooms. The objectives to be achieve may include to improve the adaptation of multimedia data in classroom teaching. Some strategies and recommendations are also provided for educators to be able to use multimedia data more effectively in their teaching environments. From here we can expect that more educators are expert in database management system.
Keywords: Multimedia Database Managenment System, Multimedia, Classroom Teaching
I INTRODUCTION
For the past few decades, there has been a significant proliferation of digital media. Todays, everyone is dealing with multimedia everywhere. The evolution of information technology enhanced the importance of multimedia. So, we have to manage the multimedia information in a structured order so that educators ...
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...cient method for using applications of multimedia information then he will be able to achieve the goals required. The growing popularity of multimedia sources suggests that educators will need to conceptualize these new possibilities of emerging technologies and incorporate them within a concrete framework of teaching and learning. Teachers also required to search and present the best selection of multimedia resources. However, multimedia information and databases are quite different from standard traditional alphanumeric databases. Multimedia information and databases will be valuable for teachers who want to integrate multimedia resources into curriculum and teach with databases as cognitive tools. With effective application of multimedia information and databases, teachers will be more able to achieve a successful instructional outcomes for various content areas.
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