The experiences of teacher candidates in developing instructional multimedia materials in project based learning

Abstract Evaluation is an important component of developing educational materials so the aim of this study is to evaluate teacher candidates’ studies corresponding instructional multimedia material in project based learning according to their opinions in terms of the competencies it provides. This study was applied to a randomly selected sample of 200 students (100 females and 100 males) of various departments of Near East University and who got the course “Instructional Technologies and Materials Development” (ITMD) at the beginning of the 1st term of 2010-2011 academic year. The participants got the course “ITMD” which was carried out as a Project Based Learning. Over the period of that term, the teacher candidates learned to design and develop various multimedia instructional projects such as course software, slideshow, a web-site, etc. The teacher candidates evaluated the questionnaire which was designed according to instructional multimedia materials developed by them in PBL. At a glance result according to the analysis of the questionnaire, the teacher candidates chose “mostly” answer for preparation, organization media-use, navigation tools use, appearance design and resource use operations. Based on the findings, we will discuss practical implementations of a multimedia projects with project based learning approach in teacher candidates’ education.

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