What is ARELLO-IDECCs definition of a mixed media course?
Mixed media courses combine more than one technology to deliver content of a single course. Most often, mixed media refers to correspondence courses that utilize print or electronic media to deliver content to the student. In addition, for interactive exercises such as quizzes or exams, web or other technologies may be used. Essentially, mixed media utilizes specific technologies to deliver major portions of a course. For example, a course developer provides students with documents that they could download from a web site and read as the primary method of content distribution. (So far, this course would be considered a correspondence course.) But the provider adds some interactive quizzes students must take on the Internet, thus adding another media to the instructional design strategy. The course then becomes a mixed media course.
