Multimedia curriculum for an introductory course for information technologist

First year, tertiary courses have many teaching related challenges. Lecturers need to engage students with mixed educational backgrounds, abilities and study habits. Moreover, some students studying first year subjects may already know some of the material, but not all, and as a consequent find traditional teaching material uninteresting and boring. These complications can be compounded with other issues relating to students being taught in a second language. This paper reports on the use of multimedia for student-centered delivery of theory, problem classes exercises, laboratories and assessments with a first year, tertiary course on information technology to Vietnamese students whose English is their second language. The new course material was developed and designed to be entertaining and educational. The students¿ survey and discussion board comments suggest the teaching related challenges have been met by introducing multimedia delivery material, exercises and assessments. The evidence suggests that students prefer learning with multimedia.