Multimedia Learning Principles

Richard E. Mayer has developed a set of instructional design principles that are based on experimental research studies and grounded in a theory of how people learn from words and pictures.

Learn more about Mayer’s cognitive theory of multimedia learning from his books including:

E-learning & the Science of Instruction:
https://amzn.to/44wJvjc

Multimedia Learning:
https://amzn.to/3smX9Ie

Transcript

1. COHERENCE SIGNALING
   SPATIAL CONTIGUITY
   SEGMENTING
   MODALITY
   …when extraneous
   material is excluded
   …when corresponding
   printed words and
   graphics are placed
   near rather than far
   from each other
   PRE-TRAINING
   …from a narrated
   animation when they
   have had training in
   the names and
   characteristics of the
   main concepts
   …when cues are
   added that highlight
   the main ideas and
   organization of the
   material
   …when a narrated
   animation is
   presented in learner-
   paced segments
   than as a continuous
   unit
   REDUNDANCY
   …from animation and
   narration than
   from animation,
   narration, and on-
   screen text
   TEMPORAL CONTIGUITY
   …when corresponding
   graphics and
   narration are
   presented
   simultaneously rather
   than successively
   …from graphics and
   narration than from
   graphics and on-
   screen text
   PEOPLE LEARN MORE DEEPLY…
   By Richard E. Mayer
   MULTIMEDIA
   LEARNING
   PRINCIPLES
   Richard E. Mayer has developed a set of
   instructional design principles that are
   based on experimental research studies and grounded in
   a theory of how people learn from words and pictures.
   Learn more about Mayer’s cognitive theory of multimedia
   learning from his book Multimedia Learning.
   

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