home

=This wiki will explore Mayer's Multimedia Principles as outlined in his book, __Multimedia Learning__, using multimedia technologies to illuminate each Principle.= The promise of multimedia learning is that, by combining pictures with words, we will be able to foster deeper learning in students. First, multimedia instruction messages can be designed in ways that are consistent with how people learn, and thus can serve as aids to human learning (Mayer, 1997, 1999a, 1999b, 2001). Second, there is a growing research base showing that students learn more deeply from well designed multimedia presentations than from traditional verbal-only messages, including improved performance on tests of problem-solving transfer (Mandl & Levin, 1989; Mayer, 2001; Najjar, 1998; Schnotz & Kulhavy, 1994; Sweller, 1999; Van Merrienboer, 1997). In short, the promise of multimedia learning is that teachers can tap the power of visual and verbal forms of expression in the service of promoting student understanding

Click on the image of the book to read an except

Click on the image below to listen to a talk about Richard E.Mayer's Multimedia Learning media type="custom" key="7967406"

Principles for managing essential processing

 * //**Segmenting principle**//: People learn better when a multimedia lesson is presented in learner-paced segments rather than as a continuous unit.
 * //**Pre-training principle**//: People learn better from a multimedia lesson when they know the names and characteristics of the main concepts.
 * //**Modality principle**//: People learn better from animation and narration than from animation and on-screen text.

Principles for reducing extraneous processing

 * //**Coherence principle**//: People learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included.
 * //**Redundancy principle**//: People learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration, and on on-screen text.
 * //**Signaling principle**//: People learn better when the words include cues about the organization of the presentation.
 * //**Spatial contiguity principle**//: People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented near rather than far from each other on the page or screen.
 * //**Temporal contiguity principle**//: People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively.
 * Principles based on social cues**
 * //**Personalization principle**//: People learn better when the words are in conversational style rather than formal style.
 * //**Voice principle**//: People learn better when words are spoken in a standard-accented human voice than in a machine voice or foreign-accented human voice.
 * **//Image principle//**: People do not necessarily learn better from a multimedia lesson when the speaker’s image is added to the screen.
 * //**Multimedia Principle**// people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone

media type="custom" key="7967386"
 * || ** Using a wiki page template designed by the instructor you and your group will develop a page explaining one of Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia that will utilize the following multimedia tool: **

A paragraph explaining the topic including group member names A word mosaic about your topic from ABCYa http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm VoiceThread that explains the topic using: · Text · Audio Images Video A discussion topic that class members respond to using the ORQ format ||
 * Your group's Principle of Multimedia will include: **