Motivating+Factors

=Motivating Factors=

Motivating factors for participants involved at all levels

Students
More and more is the world shifting toward a visual culture. From billboards to entertainment to digital media, the world students are preparing for professionally is becoming more and more dependent on skills within digital multimedia. Students should recognize this importance, and demand an educational experience that will prepare them for this constantly shifting world.

Educators
Faculty should be encouraged to support a FYE multimedia initiative. Too often do educators want to incorporate tools like wikis, digital stories and ePortfolios in the classroom, but in some cases not adequately prepared to implement them. This leads to outsourcing to an expert who usually in not present during the course of the project, leading to questioning students and less than adequate projects. Even when an expert is attached to a project to help facilitate the process of learning, time is spent more on process and less on content.

Educators should be enthusiastic of a FYE multimedia experience because it will allow them to incorporate these tools and technologies in the class without losing time on an educators individual content. Additionally the actual quality of work will increase if students can recognize aesthetics as much as tools.