Multimedia provides exciting opportunities to education as it allows educational material to be delivered in a multitude of ways, fine-tuned to enhance the learning experience. By using multimedia in e-learning systems, educational material can be presented in ways that both simplify and enhance learning. Increasingly, educational material developers are taking advantage of multimedia technology to deliver education but use multimedia in a variety of ways that are more based on intuition and

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... sonal experience and this often leads to the development of an ineffective learning material. Although there are not many main media prototypes (animation, images, video, text, audi o), when examined at sub-prototype level, we find that there are many media types that can be used to present educational information. Given the number of available media sub-prototypes, the choice and mode of delivery of multimedia presents a problem in designing educational material. What media type or combination of types do we use for a given educational concept? What media combinations will improve learning for a particular educational concept? This paper presents a method for the selection of appropriate media for educational material and demonstrates how the method could be effectively used in the design of educational material, suitable for e-learning applications. Keywords: Multimedia, e-learning, media selection, educational material. in predefined steps or sequence. Cycle: This identifier represents concepts that describe activities or tasks that occurs cyclically. Algorithm: This identifier represents concepts that involve the description of steps required to complete a process. Chronology: This identifier represents concepts that describe events and their time of occurrence. Hierarchy: This information identifier represents concepts that describe a hierarchical system of operation or organisation. Relationship: This information identifier represents concepts that need to highlight links between entities or the concepts being described. Concept: This information identifier can be used when one needs to describe or structure ideas. Object: This information identifier can be used when details about an object (whether physical or abstract) needs to be presented. Component: This identifier is used when there is need to show the constituents of a system. System: This information identifier can be used when an organised method of operation needs to be described. This could be a physical (tangible) system or an abstract system. Set: This identifier can be used when there is need to show group relationships for items or things. Software: This identifier can be used when information about software needs to be described. Data: Most diagrams do not depict data but a few could show data in addition to the information model they display. This information identifier can be used when data needs to be depicted in a diagram. Spatial: This information identifier can be used for concepts that have spatial attributes like position, area and size. Location: This information identifier can be used when locational information needs to be presented. The identifiers and recommended media types for charts are provided in the Table 3 as follows: -Record: This identifier is used when a record or records of something needs to be shown. Properties: This identifier is used to present information about entities that possess attributes. Comparison: This identifier is used when two or more data points need to be compared. Correlation: This identifier is used when there's need to visualise interrelationship between factors. Relationship: This identifier may be used when connection between data needs to be examined. Discrete: This identifier is used for concepts that deal with distinct (or categorical) data. Continuous: This identifier is used for concepts that deal with data that has a range.