Abstract:
Multimedia package is one of the technologies based selfinstruction material comprises of text, audio, video, animations, pictures etc.
that enhances the learning activity among the learners. One of the salient
features of multimedia package is human interactivity. The emergence of
multimedia package is to reduce the face-to-face interaction between the
student and the teacher and to make student learning more effective. The
present study was designed to develop and validate a multimedia package on
organ donation for student teachers at B. Ed level. This study comprises of
both survey method and experimental method. The investigator has adopted
survey method to find out the attitude, awareness and knowledge on organ
donation and also to find out the attitude towards multimedia package among
the student teachers with the help of two constructed tools namely RK
ORGDON scale and KRMMP scale respectively, their reliability and validity
was also established. For this 1200 B. Ed students were taken as the sample
from the B. Ed colleges in Dindigul. In the experimental study is a single group
design, wherein a multimedia package was developed and its effectiveness
was found among student teachers. For this 100 B. Ed students were taken
as the sample. Findings of the survey revealed that present student teachers
have a low level of attitude, awareness and knowledge on organ donation and
low level of attitude towards multimedia package. Findings of the experimental
study shows that the developed multimedia package has raised the attitude,
awareness and knowledge on organ donation among student teachers which
shows that the developed multimedia package on organ donation is highly
effective and can be used as an educational tool to generate awareness and
create positive attitude and increase the knowledge on organ donation among
the student teachers.
