Future Developments

As with all areas of computing, there is much development work being undertaken with CD-ROMs and multimedia in general.

• A much greater variety of content available, entering more specialised teaching domains.
• A greater availability of recordable CDs of two different types - CD-R or CD-Recordable, which can only be recorded onto once and CD-RW or CD Rewritable, which can be recorded on (or written to) many times. Please note that a special type of CD drive is necessary for this.
• DVD-ROM which stands for Digital Versatile Disc-Read Only Memory. These look similar to CD-ROMs, but hold up to 4.7Gb of data (at present). Again, a specific type of drive - ie. a DVD drive - is required to read these discs.
• General availability of multimedia authoring software such as Asymetrix Toolbox, Macromedia Director and many others allow you to produce your own multimedia programs.

Contents: Using CD-ROMs

Skill Check: Using CD-ROMs