Instructional Technologies; Video and Multimedia Production; and Articles, Papers, and Reports

This research bulletin surveys the chief components of contemporary multimedia services in colleges and universities and describes some emerging practices for deploying and sustaining them in an increasingly digital and user-centered world. It includes a review of recent experiences in three smaller and two larger institutions. As audio, video, and instructional technologies converge, and as faculty and student expectations for these resources escalate, multimedia services are emerging as the next major arena in which technology and other campus leaders will find their way to standard practices that leverage these strategic assets for institutional success.

"Digital media can bridge these gaps between tradition and innovation. The Internet can support traditional methods of instruction by capturing lectures using streaming video and thus making the classroom available to students anytime and anywhere. But students need more than a simple duplication of their lectures. They need new study methods. "