Multimedia Motion: motivating learners

Abstract

Multimedia Motion is a CD-ROM, designed by Gill Graham and David Glover, for teaching post-16 students about dynamics. It allows students to select data from moving bodies (such as space rockets and tennis players), and to explore how that data can be displayed graphically and what the relationships are between distance moved, velocity, acceleration, impulse, momentum, etc. Use of parts of the disc is incorporated into the Supported Learning in Physics (SLIP) programme, and it is in this context that the evaluation of its use reported here was carried out.