Abstract:
Recent advances in online computer technologies have fostered the capability to effectively utilize interactive multimedia in both traditional and nontraditional instructional settings. Utilizing a competency-based pre/posttest approach, this study assesses the effectiveness of a multimedia-based learning environment utilized in a traditional classroom through a collaborative project involving five greenhouse agriscience courses. Results showed that this �virtual� approach to using multimedia to simulate students' experience of a real world greenhouse did aid in influencing competency development and added value to the content of courses using this learning environment.
Keywords:
horticulture education, web-based multimedia