On Implementing Multimedia Classroom Construction In Shenyang Institute Of Engineering

During the 21st century, the modern information technologies (IT) cored with computer networking technology and multimedia technology are widely used in all the fields in society. It is an inevitable trend that the education combines with IT all over the world, and it will carry within itself new economic development mode and educational pattern, which can continuously push ahead the economic and educational development with a great leap.By means of sounds, colors, lights and shapes, the multimedia educational technology provides stimulus to the sense organs, such as visual sense and aural sense. It can present a new appearance by transforming the abstract to the concrete, and the stationary to the dynamic. Besides that, the modern educational technology can provide the students with great amount of information, which the traditional educational method can never offer. Wide utilization of modern educational media has become the developing tendency in teaching activity, and the representation of educational media in colleges and universities is multimedia classroom.Multimedia classroom construction has come to be the main project to rebuild the classroom in colleges and universities. The number of multimedia classroom is used to measure the utilization of multimedia technology of schools. The conducting process of the project management, i.e. the multimedia construction can be realized only by updating the managing mode with new concepts and methods. By analyzing and rebuilding the whole course and the related process of multimedia classroom construction, the whole project management system is in a best scientific status. It can save labor, money and material, and can promote the working efficiency. From this way, it improves the modern educational technology of our institute to a new stage, and thus, it can meet the requirement to develop the educational reform in colleges and universities. The multimedia classroom construction based on the project management is significant as follows: 1. combining the theoretical study with the practice and promoting the managing ability;2. promoting the construction speed and the whole profit;3. promoting the quality of multimedia teaching and to improve the reform of it;4. improving the construction of teaching resource pool and the management information.The thesis proposes the problems to resolve in multimedia classroom construction as follows:1. The teachers are not familiar with the equipment, so it is not convenient to use multimedia classroom;2. The equipments in the multimedia classrooms are different, so they can not be connected to each other;3. The courseware is easily lost or unable compatible with the equipment;4. The management of multimedia classroom is in a mess.According to the theory of project management, the general goal of multimedia classroom construction is to utilize modern educational technology and to make the multimedia classroom fully perform the functions, so as to combine the multimedia classroom with the traditional education and to optimize the teaching effect.According to the study, the definite goals of multimedia classroom construction are as follows:1. to simplify the assess to the using process;2. to centralize the equipment control at the classroom terminal;3. to make the courseware more portable;4. to systematize the management of multimedia classroom.According to the requirement of the institute, the project ranges of multimedia classroom construction of SIE are reconstructing the common classrooms in the teaching building into multimedia classrooms with various teaching media; conducting the project according to the proved project plans and the principles of project management; establishing a multimedia teaching system controlled by multimedia controlling center all through the institute.The rationality of the project: it is necessary to go into the project for the further development of SIE. Only by conducting the multimedia classroom construction, can the institute melt up the teaching functions and the teaching effects by common classroom, audiovisual studio and the computer room, so as to realize the teaching resource sharing by both teachers and students, and to inspire students'enthusiasm. The multimedia classroom has become the important place for teachers to deliver teaching information and to accomplish the teaching materials.Goals of the project: in the next four years, the institute plans to invest 2,200,000 $ to build 54 multimedia classrooms in the main teaching buildings. The equipments in each multimedia classroom are multimedia computer system (core) and various teaching equipments, such as projector, big screen, power amplifier, frequency-shift microphone, etc. The fund for each is about 40,000.The outcome of the project: the multimedia teaching system based on the campus net, and controlled by multimedia controlling room; the equipment list, specification, allocation scheme and the operation manual.The multimedia construction project is a complex project. It offers not only a frame, but also a managing platform. In order to guarantee the safe conduct of the construction and the efficient operation after establishing the multimedia system, SIE organized the leading group of multimedia classroom construction in October, 2005. The main responsibilities are:(1) coordinating the relationship between the institute and the contractor during the construction;(2) monitoring the construction operation and the process according to the managing plan in the contract;(3) checking the problems during the construction and correcting and improving the design plan of the multimedia classroom construction;(4) organizing the relevant personnel to receive the training by the contractor.Multimedia classroom construction projects is an important decision and a large investment for the institute and its departments. In the period of decision-making, the leaders of the institute widely took the advice from experts, seriously studied the feasibility of the project report, made detailed planning of the quantity, scale, selection of equipments and the internal layout of the multimedia classrooms, and made the strict standards. Experts signed the feasibility report with reference to the quotation and equipment performance standards. Through the investigation, appraisal, and secret ballot, the project team of experts chose the best plan and submitted to the institute. On the basis of the needs of the development of the institute and modern education technology development trend, the leaders made the final decision.Thus, the construction project reaches the goals as follows:1. standard organization and managementa. setting up reasonable personnel organization;b. making feasible plans;c. establishing complete rules2. reasonable classroom environment construction and equipment choice3. establishment of multimedia teaching platform and the exploration of information spaceMultimedia classroom construction is the specific application of the modern education technology. The selection of teaching equipments should conform the practical application of teaching, follow the principles of being moderate and have some certain prospective. Only in this way can it meet the needs of the instructors and provide the instructors a space for an independent research on teaching courseware.Reasonable rewards and punishment system plays a positive role for multimedia management personnels to be conscientious and meticulous in work. Highly qualified talents with capablity of maintenance can serve the teaching in an active manner in their position.The construction projects of the multimedia classroom in Shenyang Institute of Engineering is an important task of teaching reform. With the cooperation of the related department the project achieved its expected result smoothly. It realized the general goals of the multimedia classroom construction projects: to use the general goal of modern education technology, to give full play to the functions of the multimedia classroom, to combine the multimedia classrooms with traditional teaching, to reach the optimization of teaching, to improve the teaching level. The construction of the multimedia classroom has promoted the of informatization construction of college education and pushed modern technology to a new level.