Ever since the advent of automatic computation devices, efforts have been made to answer the question of how to properly integrate them and take advantage of their capabilities in education. Educational multimedia systems promise to make learning easier, more convenient, and thus more effective. For example, classroom teaching enriched by vivid presentations promise to improve the motivation of the learner. Concepts may be given a perceivable existence in a video show and the observability of important details can be stressed. Video capturing of lectures has become common practice to produce distance education content directly from the classroom. Simulations allow students to explore experiments which would be otherwise impossible to be conducted physically by.
