Multimedia Learning
Multimedia learning is a body of research developed by Richard Mayer across the 1990s and 2000s that studies how people learn from combinations of words, images, video, and other media. It has produced a consistent set of evidence-based design principles — including coherence, signaling, redundancy, spatial contiguity, and modality — all of which are essentially applications of cognitive load theory to slide-based, video, and multimedia instruction.
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- Cognitive Load Theory
- Cognitive load theory is a framework developed by John Sweller beginning in 1988 that explains learning outcomes as a function of three types of mental effort: intrinsic load (the inherent difficulty…
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Dual coding is the learning-science principle that information encoded through two channels simultaneously — verbal and visual — produces stronger and more durable memory than information encoded…
- Cognitive Load
Cognitive load is the total amount of mental effort a participant's working memory is being asked to carry at any moment during a workshop. Working memory is the brain's real-time processing system,…
- Dual Coding
Dual coding is the learning-science principle that information encoded through two channels simultaneously — verbal and visual — produces stronger and more durable memory than information encoded…