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03 December 2016

INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN TEACHING AND LEARNING



By Ika Fatkhiyati Nurul Umay
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Media has been used as channels of communication since age stones. People used rocks, stones and other objects to send messages from the source to the receivers. However, the use of instructional media specifically and consciously began in the colonial era when “pieces of apparatus,” teaching aids, etc. Were used by the colonial masters to supplement and aid classroom teaching.

Then, what is Instuctional Media?
Instructional media are the human and non-human devices, material or methodologies used by lecturers to overcome all learning problems, including noise factors. The use of instructional media enables lecturers to explain, illustrate, disseminate and deliver their lectures more easily and effectively than when they depend on words only (Hindle, 1998).

To understand about instructional media, here is the mind map





There are so many kinds of instructional media which can be used to assist teachers or lecturers to make the teaching and learning process become more effective. The media are as follows:

  1. Real equipment: Actual equipment used on the job. Examples are computers, machinery, laboratory chemicals, and tools.
  2. Simulator: Equipment that incorporates the operating characteristics of real equipment or systems, including the “feel.” An example is the flight simulator.
  3. Training device: Reproduces the essential performance of real equipment but not its appearance or operating characteristics, e.g. a maintenance trainer for electronic equipment.
  4. Computer: Displays text and graphics on screen. It may use animation and sound. Students may interact using a keyboard, mouse or touch screen.
  5. Interactive multimedia: Computer-based text: sound, data, graphics, still pictures, and motion video. They provide random (quick) access to any segment.
  6. Virtual reality: An application of interactive video disc that places the learner in a simulated situation that feels real, even though the learner is actually interacting with a computer screen. Examples are virtual libraries and laboratories.
  7. Radio or TV broadcast: One-way communication of sound or motion picture with sound from a central station.
  8. Motion picture (Film or video): Visual display with motion and sound capabilities. It may not be interactive but excellent for instruction. Examples are films and videos.
  9. Programmed text: Printed frames of text presented in small steps. It requires frequent responding and provides feedback.
  10. Slide tape or filmstrip: Visual display of still pictures, text, and graphics. Sound capability is not interactive.
  11. Audio poster or chart, whiteboard, chalkboard flip-chart: Static print media that may include pictures and colour.
  12. Overhead transparencies and slides: Static projected media for text and graphics.


REFERENCES

Abolade, A. O. (2004). General techniques for evaluation of learning and instructional
materials. Ilorin Journal of Education,18: 7-13.

Hindle, T. (1998). Making Presentation. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited.

Gagne, R. M., & Medsker, K. L. (1996). The condition of learning-training applications.

Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

Gifford, C. (1999). Media and Communication. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited.

Kemp, J.E., & Smellie, D.C. (1989). Planning, Producing and Using Instructional Media. (6th ed.). New York: Harper & Row Publishers.

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