Multimedia Instructional Module for the Arts and Culture Subject Applied to Middle School Students

Middle School and High School education in Ecuador focuses on integrating educational innovation in the pursuit of educational prosperity based on government projects that sustain proper use of educational technology. The main objective of this research is the implementation of a multimedia instructional module for the subject of arts and culture applied to middle school students of the Educational Institution Eugenio Espejo, which serves as a tool for enhanced significative learning. This project was performed through three phases. First, the pedagogic methodology used by the teachers of the subject was diagnosed. Next, the development of the multimedia instructional module in the portable software eXeLearning INTEF-eXe Project version 2.2 was carried out. Finally, a statistical analysis was performed on the results obtained from the qualitative evaluation before and after the implementation of the multimedia instructional module, using the statistical programming language R, applying MANOVA, ANOVA and Paiwise T-tests in order to demonstrate the differences between the variables obtained from the grades of each partial. The study of the results performed in the average partial grades of the eighth, ninth and tenth grades, in a sample of n = 348 students demonstrates progressive improvement of the student grades, which demonstrates that students are motivated to work with educational technology, even in regions that have limited internet access, which is encouraging since it allows updating students' technological skills that meet today's demanding learning standards.