It allows sharing of a drawing board. Blackboard features a white board option. Multimedia Students learn in different modalities. Some studentls learn through a visual mode, others learn through an auditory mode while others learn best through a combination of these two. Incorporating multimedia into a course can address these different learning styles as well as enhancing the interactivity.
Multimedia includes audio, video, and animation.
Virtual Reality Virtual Reality is the 3-D visualization of concepts. The Center for Interdisiciplinary Instructional Technology at ECU has recently installed the Reconfigurable Advanced Visualization Environment, otherwise known as the RAVE, a unique visualization tool that provides unprecedented flexibility and visual clarity for collaborative work with virtual prototypes and other complex graphical data. RAVE has a motion tracking systems, which can enhance the sense of immersion and improve a user's control of virtual environments. Contact your ITC for additional information on this topic.