With today's authoring tools, any faculty member could develop lesson specific courseware. Not linear in nature. This allows the student to explore areas of interest. All of the text, video and audio materials are instantly accessible. No shuffling tapes, no check out counters and collecting student IDs.
Students can instantly review or replay any portion of the materials.
Interactivity draws the student into the materials. May require multiple CD-ROMs to deliver a full semesters worth of information if digital video is involved. No swapping of CD-ROMs, easy for the student to go back and review older materials. Faculty and staff are now creating more of their own computer-based language learning tools. The trend is clearly toward delivery of interactive media, and there is a clear trend toward faculty members creating their own interactive training materials, as opposed to purchasing commercially available programs.