In todays session we explored the Multimedia Principles as stated by Mayer, 2001. which would be useful to consider when I make my E-Learning activity presentation.
Coherence Principle – People will learn better when large amounts of words, pictures and sounds are excluded rather than included.
Signaling Principle – People will learn better if cues that highlight the order of essential material are included
Redundancy Principle – People will learn better from graphics and narration together rather than from graphics, narration and on-screen text.
Spatial Contiguity Principle – People will learn better when relatable text and pictures are presented nearer to each other rather than further away from each other on the page or screen.
Temporal Contiguity Principle – People will learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively.
Segmenting Principle – People will learn better when the multimedia lesson is presented in user friendly parts rather than in one continuous segment.
Pre-training Principle – People will learn better from a multimedia lesson if they already know the main concept characteristics which are to be presented.
Modality Principle – People will learn better from graphics and narrations animated sequences and text that is on screen.
Multimedia Principle – People will learn better if words and pictures are combined together rather than just words alone.
Personalization Principle – People will learn better from multimedia lessons when words are presented in an informal, chatty style rather than formal style of language.
Voice Principle – People will learn better when the narration in multimedia lessons is spoken by a human voice rather than a machine.
Image Principle – People may not necessarily learn better from a multimedia lesson where the person speaking has their image added to the screen. It may be seen as a distraction.
Having already explored the twelve principles in the Multimedia module last academic year I already had an idea what they all were but it was useful to freshen my knowledge.
Mayer, R (2001). Multimedia Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University press. p63-80