Characteristics of Learning Media

The characteristics of Learning Media
According to Arsyad Azhar (2005: 6-7) general characteristics of the media, namely:

a. Media education has a physical understanding of the adult is known as the hardware (hardware), which is an object that can be seen, heard, or be touched with the senses.
b. Media education has the non-physical which is known as a software (software) that is the actual message contained in the hardware which is the content you want delivered to students.
c. The emphasis on media education there is a visual and audio.
d. Media education has pangertian tool in the learning process both in and outside the classroom.
e. Media education is used in the framework of communication and interaction of teachers and students in the learning process.
f. Media education can be used in bulk (such as radio, television), large groups and small groups (such as films, slides, video, OHP), or individual (for example: module, computer, radio tape / cassette, video recorder).
g. Attitudes, actions, organizations, strategy, and management associated with the implementation of a science.

Furthermore Gerlach & Ely cited Arsyad Azhar (2005: 12), revealed three characteristics of the media is an indication why the media is used and what can be done by the media by the teacher may not be able (or less efficient) to do so.
a. The Fiksatif (Fixative Property)
This characteristic describes the ability of media to record, store, preserve, and reconstruct an event or object. An event or object can be sorted and re-arranged with the media such as photography, video tape, audio tape, computer disk, and movies. With this feature fiksatif, a recording media allows the objects or events that occur at a certain time without the ditransportasikan time.
b. The manipulatif (Manipulative Property)
A transformation event or object is possible because the media have the characteristics manipulatif. Events that take many days can be presented to students in two or three minutes with the technique of shooting time-lapse recording.
c. The distributif (distributive property)
Distributif characteristics of media allows an object or event ditransportasikan through space, and at the same event is presented to a large number of students with experience with the stimulus that is relatively the same about the incident. Once the information recorded in any media format, it can be produced and how kalipun ready to be used simultaneously in different places or are used repeatedly in a place. Consistency of information that has been recorded will be guaranteed the same or nearly the same as the original.
Some explanation of the above can be said of a conclusion when the media have characteristics: (1) the characteristics fikasatif, (2) characteristics manipulatif, (3) characteristics distributif, (4) forming hardware and software, and (5) able to be used either en masse, large group / small and individuals.